#HOW TO TURN OFF OCR IN ABBY FINE READER HOW TO#
Note that I'm not attempting to solve the problem of how to clean up the imperfect OCR results and insert them into a database, and how to automate it as a batch process.
#HOW TO TURN OFF OCR IN ABBY FINE READER FOR MAC#
My writeup here is meant as a quick overview of the effectiveness of using ABBYY FineReader for Mac in producing usable, perhaps even delmited data from the scanned disclosure forms. The Senate's electronic filing system came into effect a couple years ago Senator Bernie Sanders is one example of a Senator who has moved from paper to the electronic filing system:Įxtracting data from scanned images is one of the most common and most difficult data wrangling tasks, such that OpenSecrets (aka The Center for Responsive Politics) pitched a civic hackathon challenge to build a solution for efficiently parsing Congressmembers' personal financial disclosures. However, despite the existence of electronic filing systems, some legislators still submit via paper, which is then scanned and uploaded as images or PDFs into an online database ( Senate / House).
Members of Congress are required to submit regular reports detailing their personal wealth. Using ABBYY FineReader to extract tabular data from U.S.
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