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  • Subject: RE: MSDS information
  • From: Andrew Reed <areed@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 08:45:55 -0800

Do you need to reference MSDS sheets based on their full textual
content? Another option would be to index it based on key reference
fields and take advantage of an AS/400-based imaging system. You can run
the OCR just on those key fields resulting in a better result from the
OCR process and less post-process editing. Just a thought...

Andrew Reed
Magellan Software

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Shaw 
> Sent: Friday, February 19, 1999 6:31 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Cc:   jccats@bright.net
> Subject:      Re: MSDS information
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BORING David <dboring@shl.com>
> 
> >Is it possible that once the MSDS sheet is scanned into the PC to run
> an
> OCR
> >scan on it (such as using Omni Page)? If so, then it could be
> uploaded to
> >the AS/400 as text and stored and referenced there.
> >
> >MSDS sheets don't need to be pretty, they just have to exist. If you
> have
> >them in text format and available it's as good as having them in any
> other
> >format.
> 
> We wrote an application 4 years ago to do exactly that with MSDS
> sheets.
> Unfortunately, our originals tended to be of such poor quality (bad
> faxes of
> bad photocopies) that even good OCR software of the time couldn't do a
> decent job with them.  The users ended up just typing them in, since
> that
> was easier than editing the OCR output.  I would suggest verifying
> that you
> don't have the same problem before putting a lot of effort into such
> an app.
> 
> ---
> Dave Shaw, General Nutrition, Greenville, SC (just down the road from
> BMW -
> Bubba Makes Wheels :)
> The opinions expressed may not be my employer's unless I'm
> sufficiently
> persuasive...
> 
> 
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