OCR on PDF

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nskd
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OCR on PDF

Post by nskd » Tue Jun 04, 2019 9:47 am

Have been developing a OCR function on a PDF document. Things are running perfect on PC#1. But when the script is ran on PC#2, the OCR will go haywire as it is not detecting the desired X,Y coordinates. I believed PC#1 and #2 screen size being different and is causing OCR not to performing as what I had programmed.

Is there any way to perform some kind of standardization, so whenever this script is deploy on PC with different screen size, the OCR will always work?

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Re: OCR on PDF

Post by Grovkillen » Wed Jun 05, 2019 6:03 pm

Make sure you are taking DPI into consideration.
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Re: OCR on PDF

Post by nskd » Fri Jun 07, 2019 2:36 am

Hi Grovkillen,

That’s for replying. I am not very sure the DPI thing that you mention. Are you able to elaborate on more on that or maybe direct me to any online references.

Thanks again.

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Re: OCR on PDF

Post by Grovkillen » Fri Jun 07, 2019 4:55 am

If you look for the screen DPI (it's been mentioned in other threads) you see that these can differ and it'll make the OCR miss it's target.
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Re: OCR on PDF

Post by nskd » Mon Jun 10, 2019 12:54 pm

Looks like this is a limitation for all OCR programs, am I right?

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Re: OCR on PDF

Post by Grovkillen » Mon Jun 10, 2019 12:57 pm

Yes that would probably be true.
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Re: OCR on PDF

Post by nskd » Tue Jun 11, 2019 1:38 am

thanks for your reply. Appreciate it.

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