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From: Stephen Uitti
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1989 19:21

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I haven't been following Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
software lately.  The field has been changing rapidly.  I'm
looking for pointers to software to take scanned images and
convert it to ASCII text.  My current requirements are modest:
conversion to MS WORD formatted text is not required (or even
desireable).  Some considerations are:
	What scanners are supported?
	How long does conversion take?
		Is there a "batch mode" (unattended conversion for
		multiple files, for example, at night)?
	Are there any real time converters (conversion during scan)?
	Error rates?
	System requirements (mem size, disk...)?
	Cost?
I currently have Thunderscan on a Mac II with 2 Meg RAM (though it
is getting cheap enough to be upgraded to 5 soon).  I would consider
a different scanner...

Any pointers would be appreciated.

email replies (but I'll also watch the newsgroup):

suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com
...harvard!ima!haddock!suitti

Stephen.

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From: suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com (Stephen Uitti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: OCR
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Date: 8 Sep 89 19:21:41 GMT
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