Zoho

Below is the text of my zoho writer experience. I had problems posting it to my blog and also exporting it into HTML. I will play with those at a later time, but here are my thoughts as recorded in ZOHO.

While signing up for my zoho writer account I remembered a blog post I had seen awhile back where the writer suggested that one could use the human input in the secret anti-spam code to confirm ocr text from scanned documents. In other words, instead of having to devote staff time in some digital projects to rechecking the ocr of a scanned document you could use the human interaction with these anti-spam to recheck it. The only problem with this and given it has been awhile since I read the article, but from what I understand, what one inputs in the anti-spam box is checked against some "answer," hence, if the ocr was incorrect one would not be allowed to proceed. Great concept and I'm sure there might eventually be some way around this like having some initial human correction and then simply using this approach to double checking the ocr (which is btw optical character recognition). You can use OCR on scanned documents of text which are at that point simply images and when you ocr the document you can pull the words out and then make the document image searchable as the words are now pulled out and indexed along with the image of the text. In the case of older script or handwritten documents, OCR does not generally work and does require that a human read and type out separately what is said.



As for zoho, I like it. I was not aware of it. While it may create too much confusion at the desk, it is an option for those that simply want to type up something and since we have no access to word or another word-processing product, this web-based product might be a work-around.