🚀 go-pugleaf

Here's a low tech solution which, considering the nature of the super
electronic typewriter (the format of the disks are likely incompatible with
any IBM or MAC PC compatible drive,)  may be faster and cheaper than a high
tech solution.  Print the files.  Scan with an optical scanner using a
character recognition program, converting the scanned pages to text files
for the word processor of your choice.  You can even do it your self at very
little cost; a simple sheet fed scanner and good character recognition
software cost about $300 US.  Scanning accuracy is amazing; just as an
experiment I fed in a dot-matrix printed mailing list up-side down and only
one error was generated out of 20 pages.  Character recognition software is
available for most languages (normal spelling, character set, special forms,
and context are used to aid the recognition.)

Phil Weldon, pweldon@mindspring.com


"Nuno Couto" <ncouto@netc.pt> wrote in message
news:8fb23v$ssn$1@duke.telepac.pt...
> Does anybody have any past experience working with a Philips VideoWriter
(a
> funny little all-in-one printer, monitor & computer)?
>
> If so, do you know of any software capable of transfering VideoWriter data
> to a PC, or any software that can read disks created in this device?
>
> Most of my creative fiction was created in a VideoWriter and I would sure
> like to be able to edit it in my PC. I contacted Philips Europe, without
any
> response from them.
>
> Could you please send any relevant info to: nop40531@mail.telepac.pt
>
> Many TIA in advance.
>
>