From: Timothy Gregory <tigre7t@...>
Date: 2013-02-22T10:36:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Select "columns" from multidimensional array?

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thanks yes you're right the task is tedious and messy
first i place the old book in my scanner and convert image to tiff
tiff is the format accepted in ms-office document imaging OCR tool
any text found in the tiff image is output to Word all in a single column
i clear all text formatting and correct many typos by examining it visually
i check the OCR-output text in word against the input tiff side by side
then copy and paste text ie part numbers and names into excel columns
i put each catalog section items into an xls sheet to make the data
accessible
i hope these could be used to create an index of a database of tech drawings


On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Joel Pearson <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> Sounds messy. Is the data on the page graphical rather than text based?
> Why do you need Word?
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<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>thanks yes you&#39;re right the task is tedious and messy<br></div>first i place the old book in my scanner and convert image to tiff <br>tiff is the format accepted in ms-office document imaging OCR tool <br>

</div>any text found in the tiff image is output to Word all in a single column<br></div>i clear all text formatting and correct many typos by examining it visually <br>i check the OCR-output text in word against the input tiff side by side<br>

then copy and paste text ie part numbers and names into excel columns<br></div>i put each catalog section items into an xls sheet to make the data accessible<br>i hope these could be used to create an index of a database of tech drawings<br>

</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Joel Pearson <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:lists@ruby-forum.com" target="_blank">lists@ruby-forum.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Sounds messy. Is the data on the page graphical rather than text based?<br>
Why do you need Word?<br>
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