Oh, my!

The keys to the OCRing-a-table kingdom have been discovered!

Paraphrasing the old one-liner in response to the question "How did you find your steak, sir?" ("Quite by accident!"), the secret lay at the bottom of a toolbar that was obscured by another pane of the FineReader interface, i.e., I just moved the edge of the pane, to reveal buttons for delineating rows and columns.

(Doubtless, this point is also covered in the documentation, which as everyone knows, is for sissies.)

I just tried using these buttons with about 10 pages of tables in one of the 40K Job documents, and they work like a charm.

On the average, I need to complete 20 pages of source material per day to make my deadline. To make things interesting, I also accepted a short piece from my best client that will require about 3 pages a day.

A (late) breakfast awaits. Oatmeal. Yum!

Cheers...

Coping strategy #487...

The 40K Job is degenerating into a slog, due mainly to endless schedules of stuff that is filled with half a dozen ways of expressing what appears to be the same thing (e.g., F 200, F-200, F=200, F200).

The only thing that can be done - unless you happen to be a subject-matter expert in the field, and even then it's all to easy to cross the line from translator to rewrite editor - is to reproduce each variation the way it appears in the original.

As you might expect, this results in slow going.

Still, I'm still on track for the 40K Job (though I'm going to have to spend time tomorrow morning to do title blocks).

Cheers...