Terry,
I've used an Apple Scanner with Xerox's TextBridge software to scan text
from a book. The text was typeset and was pretty clean. I got about 1
error per page, and usually it was because the typesetter would use a
lowercase 'o' instead of a zero '0'. I couldn't imaging that the quality
of a fax would be good enough for the software to successfully parse the
text.
Doug
-----Original Message-----
From: TATERRY@aol.com [SMTP:TATERRY@aol.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 1997 7:06 AM
To: newsletters@autox.team.net
Subject: OCR's
In a message dated 97-09-20 04:30:29 EDT, Barbara Leckstein writes:
<< have any of you had the club
purchase a piece of equipment or software to make the job easier? I've
been thinking about an OCR program. It would come in handy for the
newsletter, but I really can't justify the purchase because I personally
have little use for it. I thought of asking the club, but don't know if
it
would seem off base. >>
Hi Barb, I've got a fax program here with OCR and a scanner with OCR. My
experience is that it just take too long to clean up the copy after
scanning
or faxing to make it worth while. My OCR's are less than perfect by a long
shot. I'd like to hear what others have experienced.
Cheers
Terry
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