extract text

Hi,

QuickPdf is not able to extract text from image-only pdf files. Therefor you will need special OCR tools like OmniPage or Abbyy.

If I were you, I would buy OmniPage Professional (version is available for around 100$ on the net). It is able to recognize the text in scanned documents and convert them to searchable pdf files or to text files.

Google is your friend... ;)

OmniPage Professional is a standalone product. You can configure it to grab files from a specified folder and output the convertet files to another. Then you can work with those resulting files in Delphi.

Hi Tom!

There's a better (less expensive) method...
The delphi-solution from kavaler and an additional OmniPage Pro ;-)

Cheers, Ingo

hello
Can you tell me how can I use it in Delhpi?

Here is part of Delphi code

// ttt.pbm  - image for OCR (withh TFreeBitmap JPG can be converted to PBM or useing djpeg.exe)
// ttt.txt - result of OCR
procedure TOIBCaptchaKiller.Do_OCR;
var
  StartupInfo : TStartupInfo;
  ProcessInfo : TProcessInformation;
  Res:boolean;
  cmdLine:array[0..512] of char;
  lpExitCode: DWORD;
begin
  FillChar (StartupInfo, SizeOf(StartupInfo), 0);
  StartupInfo.cb := SizeOf(StartupInfo);
  StartupInfo.wShowWindow := SW_SHOWNORMAL;//SW_HIDE
  if  CreateProcess (nil,Pchar('gocr -i ttt.pbm -o ttt.txt'),nil,nil,FALSE, 0,nil,nil, StartupInfo, ProcessInfo) then begin

  GetExitCodeProcess(ProcessInfo.hProcess, lpExitCode);

      while lpExitCode = STILL_ACTIVE do begin         // sve dok se test applikacija ne ugasi nejdi nikud
        sleep(100);
        Application.ProcessMessages;
        GetExitCodeProcess(ProcessInfo.hProcess, lpExitCode);
      end;

    CloseHandle(ProcessInfo.hProcess);
    CloseHandle(ProcessInfo.hThread);

    end;
end;