Lets face it - the accuracy isn't great. Make it better.

Screen grabs have too low a resolution for VelOCRaptor to work well. Rescale them before reading so that they work.

This should give an indication of progress, not just the spinny wheel

First of all, Thank you for this software - it is brilliant! I would like to suggest adding the ability to correct OCR'd text a la Paper Capture in Acrobat 5.0

Some people like it, some hate it. Personally I like it as I think it sums up our output sometimes, mis-spelt and with crap in the middle, but then it was my idea.

There's an entry for change your product name as well. If you feel strongly one way or the other please vote for this or that.

Word recognition of technical documents could be improved by pointing VelOCRaptor to specialist dictionaries that the user might have.

I OCR'd a multi-page scanned document in PDF that is 119 pages long. The original file is 16MB; the output is 41MB. I doubt the text accounts for the additional 25MB... Perhaps it would be possible to add the text to the PDF without re-processing the images?

The app currently falls over with ...recognize.lua:180: cannot open file for reading

Maybe scan this file, and scan and put text on clipboard

At the moment VelOCRaptor saves its processed files as a duplicate, adding "with text" to the names. This means, when used in a batch workflow (or just when being used quickly with multiple documents) you end up with twice the number of files. I can see this system would be useful for some, but I'd like to be able to select an option just to overwrite the original file with the processed one.

The PDF is all very pretty, but I want to get at the raw text. Let me save as text rather than PDF.

Let me tell you where to save etc

Branding is important. I "get" your brand -- OCR with the power and speed of a v'raptor.

But I can't help but think people will see it and think, "velo-CRAP-tor."

It would be a shame for a great product to be hampered by a crappy name.

From the services menu it would be useful from say preview to be able to send to VelOCRaptor

Support formatted automatic file naming, e.g.
* The first "n" recognized characters
* The date and time of OCR (or last modified date of input file)

So, the file might be named "Vanguard Statement - 20090403:1022".

This would give a simple way to organize output, especially when a bunch of paper is being scanned.

You can double speed of the program by using multiple threads (if algorithm is not parallelizable, at least scan more than one page at a time).

I had carefully merged 35 separate scanned chapters of a doc in PDF so as to have an outline (using PDF Lab).. and when I OCR'd it in VelOCRapter (keep the name!) I lost the outline. I know, the quick solution is to OCR them <i>before</i> I merge them, but it would be nice not to have to do them one by one.