Text Search Tiffs 2.0

Text Searchable Tiff images are just what the name implies (an image that is searchable) and they work seamlessly with the search engine that comes with Windows XP. This allows a user to search for a word in a scanned image, once the image file is found the user can use the find feature just like they do in other Microsoft Applications to go directly to the page that contains the word.
Text Searchable Tiffs are very similar to text searchable PDF files in that you can search for words in a document, copy and paste the text into different applications and always view the image of the document.
Text searchable Tiff images have to be created in one of two ways.
- The document has to be brought into the PC using Microsofts Document Scanning utility. This utility will scan the document into the PC and automatically create the text searchable file. Since it uses a TWAIN driver it is compatible with many copiers TWAIN scanning option. However, it has no batch scanning capability or batch processing capability. Therefore, you cannot just push images to a file folder and have them automatically converted into Text Searchable Tiff images.
- The file has to be opened in Microsofts Document Imaging the OCR option run and the document saved.
Text Search Tiffs is a useful software application that can batch process an existing image file into text searchable tiff images. This allows for quicker searches and for the image files themselves to be text searchable.
The user selects the folder(s) to be processed and starts the program - thats it. Everything happens in the background and there is no need for further operator intervention. Since performing OCR is processor intensive the utility can be set to run after hours using Microsofts Scheduler.
System requirements:
- Microsoft Office installed