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You could write a powershell script and execute it on a scheduled basis using task scheduler.<br>Here are a few links if your interested in this method.<br><a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/psimaging-part-1-test-image/" rel="ugc">PSImaging Part 1: Test-Image - Scripting Blog (microsoft.com)</a>&nbsp;<br><a href="http://allthesystems.com/2020/10/read-text-from-a-pdf-with-powershell/" rel="ugc">Read text from a PDF with Powershell - AllTheSystems</a>&nbsp;<br><br>There are other software solutions that can be used. (even Adobe acrobat can ocr the files)&nbsp;
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You could write a powershell script and execute it on a scheduled basis using task scheduler.
Here are a few links if your interested in this method.
PSImaging Part 1: Test-Image - Scripting Blog (microsoft.com) [https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/psimaging-part-1-test-image/] 
Read text from a PDF with Powershell - AllTheSystems [http://allthesystems.com/2020/10/read-text-from-a-pdf-with-powershell/] 

There are other software solutions that can be used. (even Adobe acrobat can ocr the files) 

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<div><div class="content wysiwyg-content fr-view"><p>OCR software, we have a directory with one folder location that ERP outputs PDFs to. Looking for a relatively inexpensive software that can monitor the folder and OCR the pdf. &nbsp;Does anyone do anything like this, and if so what software is recommended?</p></div></div>
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OCR software, we have a directory with one folder location that ERP outputs PDFs to. Looking for a relatively inexpensive software that can monitor the folder and OCR the pdf.  Does anyone do anything like this, and if so what software is recommended?

Can anyone recommended a OCR software to run PDFS that are printed daily into a network folder.  We want the software to monitor the folder.

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.

Software is any set of instructions that directs a computer to perform specific tasks or operations. Computer software consists of programs, libraries and related non-executable data (such as documentation). Computer software is non-tangible, contrasted with computer hardware, which is the physical component of computers. Software written in a machine language is known as "machine code". However, in practice, software is usually written in high-level programming languages than machine language. High-level languages are translated into machine language using a compiler or interpreter or a combination of the two.

Software

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