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<B>Morgan Leijström</B>
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<PRE>With the risk of sounding grumpy i suggest to hammer your payment provider to
fix their bug.
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 ;) )
/Morgan
torsdagen den 14 februari 2013 09.21.36 skrev Juergen Harms:
><i> I just had a nasty experience with an ebanking bill that got rejected
</I>><i> (without sending me a corresponding note) due to a typo.
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</I>><i> Does anybody have experience/advice on using a normal scanner for
</I>><i> reading the essential fields of payment forms to make ebanking more
</I>><i> efficient and less error-prone?
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</I>><i> I just did some googling and quick checks along the following lines:
</I>><i> - tile the payment forms on the scanner (I have an Epson 1260), so that
</I>><i> only the reading zone at the bottom is visible of each,
</I>><i> - scan with xsane (selecting adequate settings - different from those I
</I>><i> ordinarily use)
</I>><i> - if necessary us gimp to cut away zones with garbage that upset the OCR
</I>><i> conversion (i.e. tesseract, can be avoided by properly setting the
</I>><i> reading area in xsane)
</I>><i> - use tesseract to do OCR
</I>><i> - filter the output to throw away garbage lines, and to correct
</I>><i> characters that frequently get mis-interpreted (e.g. B->8, Z->2, O->0,
</I>><i> D->0 etc.)
</I>><i> - output the data thus produced, formatted for copy-paste into the
</I>><i> ebanking form
</I>><i>
</I>><i> That works surprisingly well, but is excessivly complicated to handle
</I>><i> (easy to make handling mistakes, not fit to give it to my wife). Are
</I>><i> there tools that help automating these steps and integrating them into a
</I>><i> single tool? - if not, it should not be too difficult to do some
</I>><i> scripting (but I dont want to re-invent things). (And yes, I had tried
</I>><i> some years ago these small reading sticks that you slide over the form -
</I>><i> I ditched it: only works on windows, and produces an excessive amount of
</I>><i> errors).
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</I>><i> Juergen
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