OCR (Optical Character Recognition)

I have just bought this new printer/scanner.I am trying to use the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) text converter that came with my old printer. When I scan as a photo the output comes as several pictures and all the text is missing. When I scan as a document the output is in PDF. And the OmniPage text converter is of no use.Does anyone have any suggestion. Or should I just buy a new ink cartridge for my old Canon, and return this HP to Costco?Many thanks.

Your answer is much appreciated. I'll get round to trying the solution when I can whip up enough enthusiam. Right now I'm a bit fed up with trying to get the machine sorted out! Probably not so much the machine as the operator, it's way too hot here today. 33 deg celcius.I am a bit unsure if it will do the trick, but it's the best aswer so far!Thank you

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I've been testing out ABBYY Finereader Pro, and they do have a demo, and so far it seems to be the most accurate of what I've been able to test. It gets pretty close to everything on English and Spanish, and supports most common languages (check the list on their website). It even properly recognized syllables of phonetic Tibetan (using Roman alphabet, but it will not detect Tibetan). The UI is pretty good, but not perfect and there's no way to train for odd words you might need. I haven't tried it for Chinese or Japanese, but for my purposes, unless I find something more economical, I'll buy this one for its accuracy.
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Pdf ifilter OCR (Optical Character Recognition) 64 bit SharePoint

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We have 3 windows server 2008 (2 front end and 1 index) 64 bit MOSS servers and 1 SQL Server 2008 64 bit server in our SharePoint environment.
We also have pdf iFilter 64 bit version from Adobe and we can successfully search PDF content. http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025
However, scanned / OCR ed PDF content are not returned while indexing using the pdf iFilter 9 (64 bit). Then I followed http://blogs.msdn.com/ifilter/archive/2007/03/29/indexing-pdf-documents-with-adobe-reader-v-8-and-moss-2007.aspx except with Adobe Reader 9, which indexes PDF files that are OCR ed.
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If I am to acquire OCR software first to perform scanning in text mode, where can I obtain this OCR software for HP 4507 printer?
Microsoft Office Document Scanning application cannot recognize or find the HP 4507 Scanner when it was supposed to.
In this matter, a support would be much appreaciated.
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rakam

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http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/14595/ocr-anything-with-onenote-2007-and-2010/
Office 2003:
http://agsci.psu.edu/it/how-to/perform-ocr-with-microsoft-office-2003-document-imaging
As I understand you experience issues with the solutions above, that may happen due to non-working Windows Services.
Follow these steps which might be applicable for a such, as well ensure the Windows Service as described within Solution 3:
http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03586087/
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Shlomi
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