You definitely need some type of feedback on the OCR processing status. I am trying to put in PDFs and I presume it is processing but have no feedback of whether it's working or how long it might take.
I like the color coding concept. I am forever highlighting different things with a pile of multicolored highlighters to track things more easily.
@tfdoubleyou I will look into to this more and try to find a solution. If it doesn’t return an error message it is busy processing the file. The length of time it takes is dependent upon the length of the pdf and the speed of your CPU.
I've continued to test this and have become impressed with the results. I had a couple of issues at the start, but support was fast and thorough. Now with many of the kinks worked out, I'm finding quite a bit of utility.
It's not a click-and-done operation, the output still takes a bit of work in CAD to get to my deed plot standards, but this tool gets me 90% of the way there in just a few minutes.
I just release Version 1.2 and have implemented some of the suggestions I've received so far:
- Moved Line and Description Layer input option to the main window
- Added the option to plot the area and closure in CAD
- Added progress status of OCR and deed processing
- Improved post processing of OCR text
- Bug fixes
I also have decided to make this program free for the time being while I am still receiving feedback about it.
https://www.deedreaderpro.com/download
Note: The manual and videos haven't been updated yet to reflect the changes made in this release.
Matt, we all need a business plan.
Personally, I'd druther buy it at one price. As you add features, pay the upgrade. I have enough monthly worries.
Nate
This is a pretty amazing piece of software. Our technicians do most of the deed plots, but it isn't anyone's favorite part of the job. The time saved just highlighting the calls, or the time checking our own descriptions for closure would pay for a seat.
But I agree with Nate, I resist the subscription model of software. Looking at my desktop, I don't have any.
Steve Chatelle
Hi Nate,
I've had the request for an option to purchase the program outright from others too so I will add this option and also revise the other pricing options I had set once I am satisfied that everyone who has tried Deed Reader Pro is happy with the performance and features.
This weekend I made the Call Table interactive so now when you click on a cell in the Call Table it will highlight and select the corresponding text in the Deed Text. This feature will be available in the next release. My goal is to make it as easy as possible to correct any misread characters and mistakes in the deed.
Matt,
I've got enough going on, just keeping my ink jet printers going...
I don't have star net... But id like it if I had it. Or a version of it that worked together with your pgm.
So I could easily tell it not to change any dimension by more than 29.5 seconds, or .049'.
You know, to close deeds written to the tenth, or minute.
Wouldn't it be neat, if it also forced the closure, as needed, so it doesn't make multiple cords, for one point?
Just tools to streamline it.
Since you are in this deep, what about a fancy pgm to write descriptions, that also keeps up with its own rounding errors? 30 courses, rounded to a tenth, and a minute, can disclose (mis close) by 0.50' easily. Smell check got me. (Spell) check)
N
Nate, when you say deeds "written to the tenth" do you mean tenth of a foot or tenth of a degree. Currently I do not support decimal degrees as I have never seen deeds use decimal degrees in my area but if this occurs in other areas then I can add support for it. I sometimes see fractional degrees here with fractions of 1/4 and 1/3 fractions of degrees here and support this.
I have no plans to force deeds to close as the intention here is to be able to plot the deeds so you have search coordinates when you go out in the field to look for monuments. Then based on field evidence you should decide where to set missing monuments.
I downloaded it to try it out. Your example 1 deed gave an error converting image to text.
Tried to put a simple text file description I just wrote, and I can't tell if it's even working.
I watched the video but must be missing a step somewhere.
@andy-j this could be because Tesseract, the OCR (optical character recognition) engine didn't get installed or wasn't installed in the default directory (C:Program FilesTesseract-OCR). If it was installed you should have seen this.
If it Tesseract was not found in the default you will see a message to select the first time you try to process a deed.
I just noticed that if you do not select it the first time then this window does not appear again. I will fix that. Do you know if Tesseract was installed? Please check C:Program FilesTesseract-OCR for it.
@matt8200 I checked, it didn't download. When I did the download, my computer thought the file was suspect. I had to change the extension to .exe not sure if that affected the download.
This tool is pretty amazing! I've only ever lurked on Surveyor Connect and felt compelled to make an account just to say thanks for taking the time to make this!
If you haven't already put a post on the r/Surveying subreddit, you might want to consider it. Not to take away from Surveyor Connect, theres just a pretty large user base over there as well. I've mentioned Deed Reader Pro in a few comments over there to help get the word out!
I've been using the trial for the last week or so and I've already started using it in day to day tasks going through title commitments etc and it's been a huge boost to efficiency! I have run across a number of bugs, nothing that couldn't be worked around, and doesn't diminish the potential of it, but I would be happy to share them with you if you'd like. What's the best way to relay that to you?
