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I don't know about the second half, you might have to write something up =
in Perl for that but I am using tesseract (graphics/tesseract) to do =
some old document converting for my father=85 works pretty slick.

On Dec 8, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Adam Vande More wrote:

> I have thousands of forms equivalent to invoices that I'd like to put =
into
> a database.  I'm thinking I would like to have some OCR app/tool scan =
these
> forms, and then generate a CSV with each field.  Does anyone have
> recommendations on software for this?
>=20
> --=20
> Adam Vande More
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