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+ <B>Morgan Leijstr&#246;m</B>
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+<PRE>With the risk of sounding grumpy i suggest to hammer your payment provider to
+fix their bug.
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+I think no solution that include scanning is less time consuming than proof
+read manually typed number.
+Besises, you need to proof read the scan anyway ;)
+
+( Apart from that it would be interesting from a technical point to get OCR
+working nicely ;) )
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+/Morgan
+
+torsdagen den 14 februari 2013 09.21.36 skrev Juergen Harms:
+&gt;<i> I just had a nasty experience with an ebanking bill that got rejected
+</I>&gt;<i> (without sending me a corresponding note) due to a typo.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Does anybody have experience/advice on using a normal scanner for
+</I>&gt;<i> reading the essential fields of payment forms to make ebanking more
+</I>&gt;<i> efficient and less error-prone?
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I just did some googling and quick checks along the following lines:
+</I>&gt;<i> - tile the payment forms on the scanner (I have an Epson 1260), so that
+</I>&gt;<i> only the reading zone at the bottom is visible of each,
+</I>&gt;<i> - scan with xsane (selecting adequate settings - different from those I
+</I>&gt;<i> ordinarily use)
+</I>&gt;<i> - if necessary us gimp to cut away zones with garbage that upset the OCR
+</I>&gt;<i> conversion (i.e. tesseract, can be avoided by properly setting the
+</I>&gt;<i> reading area in xsane)
+</I>&gt;<i> - use tesseract to do OCR
+</I>&gt;<i> - filter the output to throw away garbage lines, and to correct
+</I>&gt;<i> characters that frequently get mis-interpreted (e.g. B-&gt;8, Z-&gt;2, O-&gt;0,
+</I>&gt;<i> D-&gt;0 etc.)
+</I>&gt;<i> - output the data thus produced, formatted for copy-paste into the
+</I>&gt;<i> ebanking form
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> That works surprisingly well, but is excessivly complicated to handle
+</I>&gt;<i> (easy to make handling mistakes, not fit to give it to my wife). Are
+</I>&gt;<i> there tools that help automating these steps and integrating them into a
+</I>&gt;<i> single tool? - if not, it should not be too difficult to do some
+</I>&gt;<i> scripting (but I dont want to re-invent things). (And yes, I had tried
+</I>&gt;<i> some years ago these small reading sticks that you slide over the form -
+</I>&gt;<i> I ditched it: only works on windows, and produces an excessive amount of
+</I>&gt;<i> errors).
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Juergen
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+Morgan Leijstr&#246;m
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