Scanner(s) and OCR Recommendation Request

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From: Frank Merrow
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 1990 20:12

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Hi,

I have an application where I get printed material (say a phone bill), that
must be turned into a machine readable (ascii) form.  Currently we type it
in by hand :-( . . . I started looking a Scanners and OCR packages, but I don't
really know that much about the market.  What I need to know is what is good
and what isn't.  Who makes scanners?  How good is OCR these days.  Do I HAVE
to have a full page scanner since the vertical alignment is important (on say
a phone bill to align the phone number with the $$$$) or is a half page scanner
OK since the software can compensate for me?  I know NOTHING!  Who is using
what and how do you like it?  (If there is interest I will post a summary.)

Frank
frank@odetics.com

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From: frank@odetics.com (Frank Merrow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Scanner(s) and OCR Recommendation Request
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.201249.8619@odetics.com>
Date: 15 Oct 90 20:12:49 GMT
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Organization: Odetics, Inc., Anaheim, CA
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