![]() It allows you to easily capture and annotate anything on the screen including windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular / freehand / fixed regions as well as scrolling windows / web pages. It's free - just search on "Faststone Image Viewer", download it and try it out.FastStone Capture is a powerful, lightweight, yet full-featuredscreen capture tool and screen video recorder. I use it for all my post processing work except for warps. Faststone is MUCH MUCH MORE than an image viewer. If you do much post processing of your pix you really should try this out. Well worth the effort as we have saved countless hours of transcription time using this method. Be patient, this does takes a little practice. I like Word, it has a spell checker and this helps make some of the corrections, if necessary.ĩ. We copy the transcription into Word or other text processor. If there is a large amount of text, we make a paper copy of the image text to proofread and make any corrections that are necessary. Sometimes the conversion is not perfect, depending on how noisy or dirty your original pic was before processing. Your file should be somewhere between 200 and 1,000 k. ![]() Adjust the image size so that you have good sized letters in a full sized view. Increasing the contrast several times in a row works well in certain circumstances. Convert your text image to black and white and increase the contrast. Or try using the histogram function to reduce background colors, this sometimes works well.Ħ. ![]() Use the paintbrush feature or clone and heal to remove any images, noise, or anything that is not text. You may have to experiment on the tolerance level so as not to remove the text. (Your text should be dark, hopefully fully black, at this point). ![]() Use a program like Photo Shop to remove as much of the background color as you can and convert the background color to white. We would suggest that you straighten your image, and crop fairly close to the text, eliminating as much non-text as possible. (Fast Stone) (DO NOT CONVERT to BLACK and WHITE Yet.)Ĥ. Look carefully at your image, if the lettering is white or a light colored you will want to convert it to a negative. You want to keep the original if you plan to post it on your waymark.ģ. Whether you use Fast Stone or another program make a duplicate copy of the image to modify. Check your OCR before getting started for what type of image format to use.Ģ. Select the image that needs transcription (it must be in a format that the OCR will accept) We use jpg. Actually, I use Fast Stone exclusively most of the time.ġ. Photo shop or similar program: to removed back ground color and adjust color and/or contrast.įast Stone Image Viewer (more about this later): to convert to a negative (when necessary) straighten the image, crop and adjust color and contrast. Sometimes we use a combination of three programs to accomplish the transcription: We have compared the results of this OCR software against others and this one consistently did a better, more complete job. We use this one with great success - Link: We used "Google" to search by just using OCR in the search bar. There are several free websites available online. The one we use is a free online program that does not require you to sign in or register. Taking a high resolution pic can be to your advantage here - you can reduce the resolution somewhat after processing, but remember that your final B & W pic will be much smaller (in kilobytes) that was the original. Plan ahead and remember that these images are going to be used for the transcription. Take a clear photo of the item to be transcribed, if you cannot take a picture of the entire item, take it in sections. These instructions may seem overwhelming at first however, when weighed against the time it takes to manually transcribe the image a little prep work makes it worthwhile, for us at least.īe aware that not all images can be transcribed, usually stone, shiny background, photos with lots of glare to name a few. There are several categories that require you to include the text from signs, monuments, plaques, etc. Transcribing text, especially if quite long, is time consuming and tedious. What is OCR: Optical character recognition (software) Silverquill suggested that we post this on the forum.
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