RE: Read/decode barcodes from an image

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ceo@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:ceo@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 10:06 AM
> To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Read/decode barcodes from an image
> 
> The barcodes are on faxes and whatnot, with no predictable skew,
> position, nor orientation.
> 
> You've tried JOCR/GOCR, and they don't do very well.
> 
> Here are your options:
> 1) Shell out the money for that PaperPort OMNI or whatever it is
> commercial OCR product. It *is* better than JOCR/GOCR, in my
> experience.
> [If you Google for OCR you'll find it, as it's the only/best
contender,
> and referenced everywhere.]
> 
> 2) Roll your own with GD. With sufficient skill and time, you can
> utilize very specific knowledge of your content to do even better than
> the generalized commercial solution. I have done this myself for
> standardized medical documents that were scanned in, getting a
> percentage point or two better than 1)
> 
> No matter what you do, OCR will never ever get you 100%.  You WILL
need
> a human oversight process on the results that hand-checks everything,
> or be prepared to accept a (small) failure rate.
> 
> Set your [client's] expectations properly, or be doomed to frustration
> [failure].

I had always thought that faxes were a big no-no for character
recognition software? I know that we can't use it for one of our OCR
solutions because it is just too... well, crappy. The image quality is
nowhere near what it should be for a successful OCR pass.

As for client expectations: hell yes--tell them not to use a fax machine
in the digital age. Scan the document and e-mail it or something. Where
I work, we've done away with 90% of any fax machine usage in order to
have documents that can be used by our OCR solution.

My 2c,


// Todd

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