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The Adaptive Technology Center's OCR Rocket Program

Program Overview

Screen shot of OCR Rocket

OCR Rocket Version 3.5 is now available. OCR Rocket has been updated to work with Kurzweil 3000 Version 10 (tested with version 10.04). Also, support for automatically opening PDF files has been added.

OCR Rocket facilitates high speed / high volume scanning and optical character recognition (OCR) processing with Kurzweil 3000. The OCR Rocket program finds unprocessed PDF and TIFF files containing scanned pages, then automatically operates Kurzweil 3000 to perform the OCR and save the files into Kurzweil Education Systems, Inc.'s proprietary "KES" file format, the Microsoft Word "DOC" format, the rich text "RTF" format, and the ASCII text "TXT" format.

With OCR Rocket the chore of scanning directly in Kurzweil 3000, or of attending to the Kurzweil 3000 program by opening each scanned image file if scanned in another program, and then waiting for the OCR recognition process to complete so you can manually save the OCR results as a KES file is eliminated. With OCR Rocket, you can use the high speed scanning utilities provide with your scanner or from other suppliers to get the full speed and control as your scanner was designed for. OCR Rocket automatically finds newly scanned files and will process them through Kurzweil 3000 for you letting you focus your valuable time on other tasks such as scanning, proof-reading, etc.

Availability

The OCR Rocket program is available free to not-for-profit and educational institutions.
For licensing and download instructions, please click here.

System Requirements for OCR Rocket

To use OCR Rocket Version 3.5 productively, you need a computer that meets or exceeds the hardware requirements listed below:

Hardware Requirements

  • Processor: 300 MHz Intel® Pentium III
  • Memory: 256MB (512MB+ recommended)
  • Hard Disk Space to install OCR Rocket: 10MB
  • Keyboard: Required.
  • Mouse: Required.
  • CD Drive: Required.

Software Requirements

  • Operating System: Windows® NT, Windows® 2000, Windows XP®, Windows Server®
  • Kurzweil® 3000 Scan and Read: Versions 4.01 or higher

Support

The latest (January, 2008) OCR Rocket manual is available for download here in the "RTF" file format (filesize: 44 MB).

To check the OCR Rocket Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document, please click here.