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Opened Skype tonight
Somebody sent me a few text lines, ("... Hello / How are you / Etc. ...")
All of a sudden skype disappeared.
A small icon appeared on the bottom bar of my (Win'7) screen
There was some sort of message about an update to make it better.
Following this, I was unable to use Skype until I provided a birthdate; including day, month, and year.
I do not remember skype ever acting this way before.
Microsoft makes everything better.
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Depending on what elephanted M$ date format they use, try something like 1899-12-31.
(Thought about a joke icon, then decided not.)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Looks like we share the same birthday.
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I once HAD to enter a phone number on one of their websites...
The format was so foreign to me that it only took like 10 tries 
How many date format are there...? Knowing M$ they'll probably use yy/dddd(in Sanskrit)-MM or some such. Good luck! 
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Don't forget the Hieroglyph and Squirrel Noises!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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What a terrific idea! You are hired.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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What's the problem? Everyone, it seems, knows my cyber birthday - it sure as hell isn't my real one. One day every year I get tons of spam wishing me many happy returns but aside from that it doesn't really impact my life.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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 Exactly. I always use April 1st.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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It must be an important field in NSA queries.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Naw, they're just collecting it to help the hackers who want to steal your identity.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Company I work for is looking for an existing program for scanning invoices. Basic requirements:
Extraction of data from files provided by a wide range of vendors, each with their own specific layout.
Server based service that runs at a set time each day.
Support for a watched folder.
Installable package, not web based service (no subscription fees).
Rules based validation to eliminate the delays introduced by required human validation interaction.
Batch processing of files with output as an XML file for database import.
I've found IRIS and ABBYY which appear promising, but do you have any similar solutions to recommend?
In house development isn't an option at this time.
If you have any additional questions, please post a response so I can get it answered.
Thank you in advance for your time.
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Funny! I'm also embroiled in an Invoice collection system (multiple cost centers) involving optional upload of pre-scanned invoices to pair with an invoice number/amount/vendor/site/date. My manager asked what I thought about OCR against the smudged, carbon copy, wrinkled, with hand-written notations and check-marks down one side, pieces of paper of all sizes and formats called invoices, delivery receipts, whatever...I considered it to be a nice idea but probably not reliable enough to be worth the effort.
I'll admit that this is based on my last experiment involving OCR which was over 15 years ago...it's probably gotten much better by now. Back then, almost as much time was spent finding and fixing errors than it would have taken to just re-type the documents. 
I do think that OCR could work great if you were working with a tightly controlled format and document structure. Good luck!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Thanks for the good luck wishes. It's definitely been a learning experience with all the variables for OCR/OMR/OWR!
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I needed searchable PDF, have used PaperPort Pro and Filecenter Pro (recommended).
Now using the latter. No affiliation.
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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From what I can tell, Kofax seems to be one of the market leaders.
Have you thought of outsourcing the work to a dedicated BPO (Business Processing Outsourcing)? There are several around. What part of the world are you in?
[Disclosure: I work for a BPO that specialises in scanning and data capture]
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jsc42 wrote: Have you thought of outsourcing the work to a dedicated BPO (Business Processing Outsourcing)
No. We sell the software, we just contribute our own functionalities to count ballots - You can't just outsource that.
I only have a signature in order to let @DalekDave follow my posts.
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Thought about it but the accumulated cost is to high as we deal in the 100,000+ range for invoices.
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I interviewed at this company once: Simx[^]. They make a data extraction solution that can do what you're looking for.
Their software is impressive and they have a good support staff.
EDIT: Link fixed.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
modified 10-May-17 6:25am.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: [^]
This part of the link points to the thread above.
I only have a signature in order to let @DalekDave follow my posts.
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i personally tried Abby ocr for image to text conversion, and it gives good results
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I worked on this software in the past (back when it was Brainware) - I worked with a couple of the customers linked there integrating Brainware with their existing systems.
It might be a bit heavy/expensive though - depends on what you're looking for.
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I just got an email to say that an improvement to VS I support has ... wait for it, wait for it ... been started!
Open links in an actual browser – Visual Studio[^]
Only little detail is when I started supporting it ... 2012 ... yes, 5 years to actually comment. Does that mean that in ten years or so the $#*&$ing Ribbon will die a death? We can but hope...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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This is to inform you that someone is writing really stupid suggestions and signing your name to them. 
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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