Ok, here's the deal...
I was given thousands of pages of information on a cemetery and they want all this put into a database, and they want it easily changeable. Well I already coded the front end of the database viewer so that can view and change this data after it is inserted into the MySQL database. I just dont feel like typing the thousands of pages into it... They are paying me decently
, but still, it's a computer world, and I know this is possible, so why do somethin that would take me a month the hard way, when i can do it in just a few days with a scanner and a lil enginuity...
Is there a way that I can scan in each *typed* page, and use some program to convert each image into a *.txt or of the like format? That way I can write my own program to parse the information out of there, in a giant loop, and i'll be done with inputting all the information in about as much time as it took to scan each page... It would be so nice
Im hoping this program is free, cuz if it costs too much, I may have to try and write a program that does this myself, and sell it for cheaper... I just know the algorithms I will have to concoct(spelling?) that matches areas of pixelated rigions of an image to a templated pattern to pop out the letter the algorithm thinks this is will have to be damn good, especially to be able to turn someones chicken scratch writing into Times New Roman font.
Thanks for the input
- SunGun