To process an image file, load it with "Open" and select "Read Image (OCR)" in the File Menu. The OCR process will start immediately.
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 recognised difficultly. Words in green do not 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 favourite word processor.
For better results, scan your documents with a resolution of 300x300 DPI.
You can add words to a dictionary by clicking on the + symbol at the right of the used dictionary, in the OCR options
You can process several image files at once by choosing "Batch OCR" in the File menu.
WOCAR uses a neural network to recognise the characters. Just like your brain !
If you don't want to rely on Wocar's page layout analysis, you can select the text areas yourself. Select the "New" command in the "Areas" menu in order to define a text area.
If you have defined text areas in an image document, you can save the areas to a disk file. You will be able to load this areas if you have many documents with the same page layout. (See "Load" and "Save" command in the "Areas" menu)
When you're viewing an image document, you can change the zoom factor by typing + ou - on the numeric pad.
When you're viewing an image document, the zoom factor is displayed in the main toolbar. You can type or select a new value for the zoom factor directly from the toolbar.
When you're viewing an image document with several pages, the current page number is displayed in the main toolbar. You can type a new page number directly from the toolbar.
You can customize the toolbars by clicking on a toolbar with the right button.
The author of this application could be contacted via E-Mail at: cambien@francenet.fr
WOCAR is also a DLL that can be integrated in your own applications !
