Improving text recognition in printouts?

[MichaelH]

Are there any tips for improving text recognition in documents printed to
OneNote? I thought it would help to make sure that technical words were in
the ON dictionary before printing but that didn't help any. Is there some
other dictionary that can be edited to improve recognition of "unusual"
technical terms?

 

[MichaelH]

Nobody?

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

The only hints I can provide are:
1) make sure the text is clear - fonts nice, no fuzz, no italics, etc.
2) Insert the item as large as possible without fuzzing - larger letters
seem to recognize better than tiny ones

That said, I haven't had much problem with text being recognized. Unusual
terms are going to be hard for any OCR engine to understand. You may find
that it is best to copy and paste the text below the graphic and hand edit
what is pasted. After that, the information should be searchable.

--
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Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint
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[Ms. Fanny GTC]

Hello Kathy,

Regarding this subject, I have the following issue: some PDF files
(publications, books) have some pages horizontally oriented that once
inserted on OneNote as printout, could not be text recognized. Is it feasible
to correct this unability?

I mean, even text recognition's tool is activated, it result impossible to
recognize it on tables/charts which are horizontally oriented. In the case
of 'rotate function', that is not available for those pages either.

Any suggestion? Thanks in advance!

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Ms Fanny,
I would try using the rotate powertoy to rotate the PDF pages 90 degrees and
then see if the text is recognizable. Link for that is:
http://blogs.msdn.com/johnguin/archive/2007/12/14/image-rotator-powertoy-for-onenote-2007.aspx

(That said, if you are still having problems getting powertoys to work on
your copy of OneNote, let's keep that discussion there.)

--
Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com
or on my blog, http://geekswithblogs.net/VitaminCH/Default.aspx

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

 

[Ms. Fanny]

Sorry Kathy!

Just for your records, I was trying to say vertically orientation instead of
horizontal one. My mistake.

I am going to try with that powertoy.
Regards!