To process an image file, load it with "Open" and select "Read Image (OCR)" in the File Menu. The OCR process will start immediatly.
OCR is the abbreviation of Optical Character Recognition.
Don't forget to select the language used in the text you want to process before using the OCR.
When you have noisy documents with a lot of speckles, check the "noisy" option.
Words in red are those that Wocar has recognized difficultly. Words in green does'nt exist in the current dictionary.
You can save the OCR results in a file just by clicking the "Save" command (File menu). The resulting file is in RTF format and can be edited with Wordpad.
You can modify directly the OCR results by editing the text in the text window.
You can use the copy functionnality to put the OCR results in your favorite word processor.
For better results, scan your documents with a resolution of 300x300 DPI.
You can process several image files at once by choosing "Batch OCR" in the File menu.
WOCAR uses a neural network to recognize the characters. Just like your brain !
The author of this application could be contacted via E-Mail at: cambien@francenet.fr
WOCAR is also a DLL that could be integrated in your own applications !