Microsoft Office Document Imaging in Office XP

[Mark]

The Microsoft Office Document Imaging that came with
Office XP Professional performs its OCR function
flawlessly (recognizes the first x characters in the image
and embeds this text into the image file). With that
completed, we are able to use the Indexing Service of
Microsoft Windows 2000 (Professional and Server) to index
them and an intranet page to successfully query the
Indexing Service to find any of those OCR'd images
containing specific text.

There is a command line version of the OCR program
(mspview.exe), and we have embedded calls to this program
inside a VBScript program. Using the Task Manager, we can
observe multiple instances of the mspview.exe program
running; however, none of the images are modified by the
program. Therefore, the Indexing Service cannot index
these image files and the query against the Indexing
Service returns nothing. We get the same result by
executing the mspview.exe program manually via command
line.

The exact command that we're using is "mspview.exe -o
<filename>".

Can anyone tell me why the command line version of the OCR
process is not working?

Thanks,
Mark

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Mark,

When using the command line try not having a space
between the -o switch and the file name. For example
mspview -oG:\demoname.tif

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The Microsoft Office Document Imaging that came with
Office XP Professional performs its OCR function
flawlessly (recognizes the first x characters in the image
and embeds this text into the image file). With that
completed, we are able to use the Indexing Service of
Microsoft Windows 2000 (Professional and Server) to index
them and an intranet page to successfully query the
Indexing Service to find any of those OCR'd images
containing specific text.

There is a command line version of the OCR program
(mspview.exe), and we have embedded calls to this program
inside a VBScript program. Using the Task Manager, we can
observe multiple instances of the mspview.exe program
running; however, none of the images are modified by the
program. Therefore, the Indexing Service cannot index
these image files and the query against the Indexing
Service returns nothing. We get the same result by
executing the mspview.exe program manually via command
line.

The exact command that we're using is "mspview.exe -o
<filename>".

Can anyone tell me why the command line version of the OCR
process is not working?

Thanks,
Mark >>
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I hope this helps you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

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