>>>I'm looking for a way to OCR existing documents in a VFP system before exporting to a document manager. The files are stored in a windows folder, so could be handled in a variety of ways. I already use iTextSharp to fill pdf forms and have Debenu Quick PDF, but neither of those tools seem to do OCR. The Document Management company wants to charge $2500 up front and $500 annually for a watch folder setup. I'm looking for a program with no continuing fee that could be fired programmatically.
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>>>As always, thanks in advance!
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Local miDoc,miLayout,lcStr
>>lcStr=''
>>CREATE CURSOR mondocument (mondococr m)
>>miDoc = Createobject('MODI.Document')
>>miDoc.Create( "C:\untitled.tif")
>>miDoc.Images(0).OCR
>>miLayout = miDoc.Images(0).Layout
>>strLayoutInfo ="Language: " + Transform(miLayout.Language )+Chr(13)+Chr(10)
>>strLayoutInfo=strLayoutInfo+"Number of characters: " + Transform(miLayout.NumChars)+Chr(13)+Chr(10)
>>strLayoutInfo=strLayoutInfo+"Number of fonts: "+ Transform(miLayout.NumFonts )+Chr(13)+Chr(10)
>>strLayoutInfo=strLayoutInfo+"Number of words: " + Transform(miLayout.NumWords)+Chr(13)+Chr(10)+Chr(13)+Chr(10)
>>strLayoutinfo = strLayoutinfo+miLayout.text
>>INSERT INTO mondocument (mondococr) VALUES (strLayoutinfo)
>>MODIFY MEMO mondocument.mondococr

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>I'm far away from my computer, so I can't check, but I'm quite sure that modi isn't available anymore.

That appears to be the case - I don't have the MODI object model available.

What I'm trying right now is the new pdfocr addon object from itext. If I get a workable dll for VFP consumption, I'll release to anyone interested since it would be open source.