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Allow saving over original filename
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.
24 votesFor version 1.0 I’ve been a bit conservative – loosing peoples files would be bad, and there are data-loss issues when the images are re-encoded into the PDF file. But you’re right, a preference would make sense.
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Add a 'Save All' menu item
It's a complete pain to click save on all those windows if I've dragged many files onto VelOCRaptor
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Keep the outline in source PDF files
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.
8 votesThanks for this feedback, to be honest I hadn’t even considered this, so it’s good to know when there are issues.
We currently extract images from the source PDF, feed it through the OCR, and then reassemble a new PDF blind. This leads to the sort of problems that you are having. It would be quite a major architectural change to support updating an existing file, but I can see advantages, and will look into how it might be achieved. -
Add the ability to drag and drop image data i.e. from an image in a browser
It would be great if I could drag straight from my browser into velocraptor. There must be some sort of drag and drop data flavour that could be used for this.
Keep up the good work.
2 votesI guess if we accept drags of data rather than files, we are going to have to have a default save location. Maybe this is the first legitimate preference?
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Keep up the good work!
This is a great start. If you can get the output PDF size from bloating when OCR'd, I will probably buy a full license.
2 votesIf you buy a full licence, we may be able to afford to make it work for you ;-)
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Use multicore/multithreading
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).
10 votesThanks for the suggestion. The next version of our engine supports multi-threading, but it will probably be some time before it is integrated. In the meantime, while each file is processed serially, if you read more than one file at once they should use different cores.
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Add ability to manually correct and edit OCR'd text
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
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Use Document Window as the Progress Indicator
How about make the little view of the document scroll itself to the page being processed as a way to indicate progress.
2 votesThanks for the suggestion – it’s very clever.
Personally I like to be able to read the document as VelOCRaptor is doing its stuff, and I worry that we’d fight over control. But we do need a progress indication, so I’ll think about it.
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21 votes
Hey, we like this sort of feedback.
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Use dictionary to improve accuracy
Try finding words, and don't put special characters everywhere.
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fnrmimzprumdng medieval 5§1ring,TI¤¢1n•¤di¢w.l
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uhmreducedmdzemytlndurmrnbaununncrclyaxudclyhludgnunndouz
umh¤¤rluch=dmdsIuh¤d¤v•gelynYetwd1¤¤h|i1hed,l¤igl11y
nphisticsmd European Gglutingxymms existed. Eumpun ‚Äòmm¬§1afdd'¬§mc‚Äôpmdu¬§¬§dhundredsofd¬§idweH-iHu¬§:1r¬§dr¬§chr|i¬§x1mm|d1 voteWe do use the dictionary, but if that’s your output, something is going badly wrong. Please email support@velocraptor.com, preferably with the image that you tried, so that we can see what’s up.
Thanks
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Update the Spotlight index without writing a PDF file
If I don't care about getting the text from a file, but simply want to find it, it would be really cool if you could just add the text to the Spotlight index
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Add detailed progress report
I've dropped large image-laden PDF and velocraptor was spinning, and spinning. I can't judge whether it's going to take 10 minutes or 10 days.
2 votesIt’s in the pipeline, thanks for reminding us that it’s important.
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Overlay/replace image with OCRed text
it would be much easier to judge quality of OCR if application drawn it on top of the image.
If you could remove letters from image and replace them with rendered fonts, that would be awesome.
1 voteGiven how good our OCR currently is, I think that it suits us that you can’t judge!
When our engine gets good enough, I think that we plan this as an option -
add automatic file naming
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.
12 votesNice suggestion, thanks. We’ll look at customisation and preferences after our first release.
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add vCard (vcf) option
Having the ability to transfer/convert into Address Book would be very useful
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Add support for JSTalk rather than AppleScript
...go on, it's easier than adding applescript and the syntax wouldn't suck
http://gusmueller.com/blog/archives/2009/03/introducing_jstalk__an_alternative_to_applescript.html
1 voteI’ve some sympathy for this suggestion, although it would have to follow after AppleScript, because we can support pretty much all scripting languages through that interface.
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Change your product name!
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.
17 votesThanks for this Steven. VelOCRaptor is a bit of an experiment – working title turned domain name I suppose. I’ll be really interested to see if other people agree with you.
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Support multi-page tiffs
The app currently falls over with ...recognize.lua:180: cannot open file for reading
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Add text-to-speech support
See Apple discussion http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp
1 voteThanks for the suggestion.
If you open the app without dropping a file on it – then drop a file, the window will stay open after OCR. You can then select all and use services to read it without saving as PDF.
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