search function on 2007

[exciter]

I have noticed in the demo on ON2007 that
ON searches on writings in picture files with optical caharacter reading
technology.
Well this will be a deligthed feature for me but I was wondering how fast
and reliable
is ON2007 at it?
Can it search fast as it searches a usual text?
Well one can imagine that it depends on the resolution of the picture maybe,
but still maybe you have an idea on the recogntion rate?
Thanx n advance

 

[Patrick Schmid]

OCR is performed when you insert the picture into the page. So search
should be as fast as with text. Reliability, I don't know. I haven't
seen any stats.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

Once the content is indexed it will be available for searching just like
text content is. The original format of the content is irrelevant since
the search happens against the index.

 

[exciter]

I see.
So when I insert a picture, ON automatically OC reads and indexes?

| Once the content is indexed it will be available for searching just like
| text content is. The original format of the content is irrelevant since
| the search happens against the index.
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| > I have noticed in the demo on ON2007 that
| > ON searches on writings in picture files with optical caharacter
| > reading technology.
| > Well this will be a deligthed feature for me but I was wondering how
| > fast and reliable
| > is ON2007 at it?
| > Can it search fast as it searches a usual text?
| > Well one can imagine that it depends on the resolution of the picture
| > maybe, but still maybe you have an idea on the recogntion rate?
| > Thanx n advance
| >
| >
| >
| >
|

 

[Patrick Schmid]

It definitely does the reading (OCR). Indexing happens whenever it
indexes new content next (normally when the machine is idle). Pictures
should be searchable though right away (as other content should be),
because ON will use its non-WDS search for anything that hasn't been
indexed by WDS yet.

Patrick Schmid