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Article #277Re: Future of fax?
From: Keith S. Freedman
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 16:51
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 16:51
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In article 13043@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu, witczak@quebec.egr.msu.edu (Mark Witczak) writes: >What's OCR? If it's what I think it is (font recognition) then you need >higher resolution to get a higher accuracy in identifing the character. >The blocky resolution of today's FAXes will not get you far. The OCR would take place on the sender side and then transmit some sort of standard (ASCII, perhaps) codes for characters it recognises. This would make it appear to take less time to transmit, although it takes longer to process each page. I believe, that there are some prototypes with 5 or 6 page buffers for this purpose. --- Keith Freedman Los Alamos National Laboratory freedman@ilmen.lanl.gov
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!lanl!ilmen!freedman From: freedman@bellman.lanl.gov (Keith S. Freedman) Newsgroups: comp.multimedia Subject: Re: Future of fax? Message-ID: <1992Apr9.165158.13230@newshost.lanl.gov> Date: 9 Apr 92 16:51:58 GMT Article-I.D.: newshost.1992Apr9.165158.13230 References: <1992Apr9.150719.13043@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov Reply-To: freedman@bellman.lanl.gov Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 15