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Thanks Joe: another great solution from you!
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Thanks Joe: another great solution from you!

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You're welcome, Mike. Thanks for the kind words. Good luck with the project — it's a fascinating one!
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You're welcome, Mike. Thanks for the kind words. Good luck with the project — it's a fascinating one!

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I need to OCR a large number of PDF files. &nbsp;The PDFs are printed from Word documents that have had changes tracked, so inserted words underlined, deleted words stuck out. &nbsp;I need the inserted and struck words to be somehow flagged, maybe with a * or ^ or whatever, but something that an AI system can recognize as a flag. &nbsp;Best if the OCR engine can run under Linux.
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I need to OCR a large number of PDF files.  The PDFs are printed from Word documents that have had changes tracked, so inserted words underlined, deleted words stuck out.  I need the inserted and struck words to be somehow flagged, maybe with a * or ^ or whatever, but something that an AI system can recognize as a flag.  Best if the OCR engine can run under Linux.

OCR engine that will annotate tracked changes?

Optical character recognition (OCR) is the mechanical or electronic conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. It is widely used as a form of data entry from printed paper data records, including passport documents, invoices, bank statements, computerized receipts, business cards, mail, printouts of static-data, or any suitable documentation. It is a common method of digitizing printed texts so that it can be electronically edited, searched, stored more compactly, displayed on-line, and used in machine processes such as machine translation, text-to-speech, key data and text mining. OCR is a field of research in pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and computer vision.

A word processor is an electronic device or computer software application that performs the task of composition, editing, formatting, and sometimes printing of documents. Most modern word processors use a graphical user interface, and most are powerful systems consisting of one or more programs that can produce any arbitrary combination of images, graphics and text, the latter handled with type-setting capability. Typical features of a modern word processor include font application, spell checking, grammar checking, a built-in thesaurus, automatic text correction, Web integration, and HTML exporting, among others.