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by hgupta1
Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:22 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Running a process on each file in a directory
Replies: 3
Views: 4900

I really appreciate your help.


I think I am really close, however my OCR program isn't accepting arguments through macro scheduler very well.

I tried just the line "run>c:\ocrprogram.exe c:\testfile" on a sample file, and it wouldn't work.

But at a DOS command prompt, it will work.
by hgupta1
Sat Aug 02, 2008 2:44 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Running a process on each file in a directory
Replies: 3
Views: 4900

Running a process on each file in a directory

I want to write a script that will run my OCR software on each PDF file in a folder and its subfolders. I want it to check for new files every night. My OCR software is fairly automatic in that it will accept a filename as an argument, then it will process that file, append "_OCR" to the filename, a...
by hgupta1
Wed Jul 04, 2007 6:12 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: finding data in excel
Replies: 0
Views: 3574

finding data in excel

The e-mail newsletter about excel reminded me of a problem that I was trying to solve through scripting, but never succeeded. Every morning I get a huge excel file that has a listing of properties where crimes have been reported the previous week. The first column has the crime type, the second colu...
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