I am considering at some point, scanning my Dungeon/Dragon collection and trashing them to make more space on my shelves. If I ever want to go through the material and Pathfinderize it or do some homebrew work with it, it would be best to just copy and paste the text to make modifications.
So what decent affordable OCR software is there?
I've not used any OCR myself, so take all of these suggestions with two grains of salt.
For purchase, you could try ABBYY FineReader, or Microsoft OneNote. ((One of my other suggestions got dropped when I realized it was $500.))
On the free end we have FreeOCR (scroll down and look for a light blue box with the download link in it), Scan2PDF (trial, claims full functionality), OCR Terminal (20 pages free per month, web based), or SimpleOCR.
But I probably should get a scanner myself to clear out my computer mags one day... But that won't be in time to help you out. So that is what I have for you. Hopefully someone with more experience will be able to give you more advice.
I've not used any OCR myself, so take all of these suggestions with two grains of salt.
For purchase, you could try ABBYY FineReader, or Microsoft OneNote. ((One of my other suggestions got dropped when I realized it was $500.))
Actually $500 isn't unreasonable. I could have that in two months time. What was it?
I have one friend who works in accessibility and another who is blind and needs good OCR programs to be able to read printed documents... both of them use ABBYY (coincidentally, they were discussing this with each other just tonight!).
Actually $500 isn't unreasonable. I could have that in two months time. What was it?