@traversekitsch thanks for the kind words and suggestion to post on reddit. I will definitely do this. Please email me any bugs you find and I will fix them: support@deedreaderpro.com
good to see some got it working well. I tried about three times loading and unloading but never got it to work with the sample data.
Hi Andy,
I believe you still need to delete the config.ini found in:
C:Users%username%AppDataLocalDeed Reader Pro
This file points to the path where tesseract it is installed and if tesseract does not get installed properly during installation then it will not work. I have improved the fix for this in the next version. Uninstalling the program does not delete the config.ini file so this is why that does not work. I can also help you get it working through a Teamviewer session if you want.
You could also edit the config.ini file to correct the path for tesseract:
I have not had a chance to try yet but seems those who have see some benefits to having this. I was following this a little and now back from a week long classes started reading and would like to try it out if possible. Also had a thought if you could make it mobile compatible as a lot of field crews prefer to take a picture of the hard copy these days. I don’t know maybe paper is to heavy or something lol. But a IPhone or android version might be of some use as well. The cursive thing mentioned would be worth its weight in gold. I am seeing a lot of younger folks who cannot read cursive. Did they stop teaching this for a while or something. Looks like you have a pretty great little product coming along.
@olemanriver please try it out and let me know what you think. It is free to try right now and I am extending the demo period indefinitely for everyone right now. It will work with images of deeds taken from mobile phones. The images of the deeds just need to be transferred to your PC and then they can be processed. Unless you also do your CAD work on your phone, it would not not make a lot of sense to try and create a mobile version.
@matt8200 i will do. Have sent a request to my IT department if that doesn’t get the ok i will break out my old personal laptop and do it on that.
Just wanted to give this a bump. In just a few short weeks, Deed Reader Pro has become a key part of my workflow on preparing new parcels. A tip for those starting, instead of trying to load in complete PDF's and allowing DRP to find the description, just take a snippet of the description, and import that as a image file. I use Windows Snipping Tool. It recognizes the text in seconds, and only looks at what I tell it.
In my experience, 40% of deeds get recognized with zero additional input from me. Another 40% take minimal input, changing some commas to periods and other minor edits. The remaining still take a bit of effort, but they were generally flawed or lousy to begin with. Looking for errors is much easier with a essentially a live plot view, helping me to easily recognize which call is the most problematic.
If you haven't given this tool a try, you should. It's changing the way I estimate for new jobs, the way I prepare for field survey, even the way I QA/QC. I've been dropping my own legals in to make sure everything is as it should.
Matt is also highly responsive via email, and his indicated to me a several new features on the way that are going to make this even more friendly and robust.
If you're struggling to start with, press on through the learning curve and I think you'll be rewarded.
@tfdoubleyou okay, thanks. But I am confused, which version link do I download if I have not downloaded any version yet?
https://www.deedreaderpro.com/download
@brad-ott you need to download "Deed Reader Pro Version 1.2". "Deed Reader Pro Version 1.2 Update" is if have already installed another version and it skips installing the optical character recognition engine again.
Bumping this, we've got someone in our office testing this out today.
@bstrand thanks. I am waiting for Matt to update the program so my laptop screen will be able to use it…
I am excited to announce that Deed Reader Pro Version 2.0 is now available to download and try. The main focus of this update was to make it easier to review and correct the Deed Text:
- By default the Deed Text is now formatted with black lines between each call to improve readability.
- Now you can click on any cell in the Call Table and it will select the corresponding text in the Deed Text.
- Deed Reader Pro can produce an image with highlighted calls from the original pdf or image file.
Version 2.0 Official Release Notes
- Added functionality to the Call Table, clicking on a cell in the call table will select the corresponding text in the Deed Text
- Added the option to view an image of the source file (image or pdf) with the calls highlighted
- Added support for bearings with degrees, minutes and seconds only separated by spaces, i.e. 'N 15 12 45 W'
- Added support for bearings with degrees, minutes and seconds separated by colons, i.e. 'N 15:12:45 W'
- Added functionality to underline and bold "beginning" before the start of calls that are processed
- Added functionality to underline and bold "containing" at the end of the description
- Added the option to insert blank lines between each call so that each call starts on a new line (option enabled by default)
- Added the option to save the deed text in Rich Text File Format (.rtf)
- Added functionality to ignore vertically oriented text (as is commonly found in page margins)
- Added support for TIFF files (.tiff and .tif)
- Fixed but with files not being processed if the filename contains an extra period
- Fixed text scaling when High DPI Display Scaling is enabled
- Allowed the main window to be reduced in size (needed for High DPI Display Scaling)
- Reduced the brightness of the icon
- Improved error handling when Tesseract is not installed properly and the path of tesseract.exe is wrong in the config.ini file
- Reduced and Updated pricing plans
- Updated the manual
@matt8200 Hi, I'd like to have a look at this. After installation should I "request demo activation key"?
