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I need to exchange data between two non-compatible software programs(silos) I was thinking of using some type of OCR technology. I need to capture words from one program and input them into another program. any ideas?
I am unclear why you are suggesting OCR. Optical Character Recognition refers to scanning a paper document and finding words embedded in the image and converting them to characters. If you are transferring data from one computer program to another, you should programatically convert the data. Are you saying that you must print the data from one computer then scan it in for the second? I would think you could 'export' the data to a comma delimited file, then burn that file to DVD, then re-load the data from the DVD. Avoid OCR at all cost, it is not 100% accurate. Does this help?
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Chuck Cosby
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I can answer questions about speech recognition and natural language understanding. I am particulary strong in knowedge based natural langauge techniques. I cannot answer questions about robotics, nueral nets, prolog, or vision recognition - just speech and natural language.
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I have spent 25 years developing natural language software products. I have never developed speech systems, but I have developed sophisticated interfaces from natural language to speech. I have been working with speech recognition systems also for 25 years.
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