TechnoLawyer member Martin Dean recently asked how to scan and OCR pleadings without the line numbers. TechnoLawyer member Brad Jensen writes: "Most scanning software will allow you to set ocr zones. Typically, on a preview of the image, you draw a "rubber band" box over the part of the text you want to scan. This excludes vertical bars, etc. My favorite consumer OCR software right now is AABBYY FineReader. Go to the Web site and buy it cheap as an "upgrade" from the often worthless software that came with your scanner. I write commercial document image systems for a living."
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