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Re: OCR Software?????

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From: Carlos Dragonslayer Butler
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 23:38
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In a previous episode on comp.sys.next.software,
athomson@otago.ac.nz (Alastair Thomson) drops complete science:

>I am looking for some good OCR software for my NeXTstation colour turbo. We
>have a 600 dpi scanner that scans to TIFF files, and we would like to run these
>through OCR. It needs to be accurate, and capable of recognising bold, italic
>and normal text.

	I have found one OCR commercial software for the NeXT:

OCR Servant by HSD Microcomputer U.S., Inc.
700 KB disk space req.
1,500 installed
1991 debut
$295 retail
Free phone support
Site licensing avail.
	OCR software that utilizes automatic omnifont recognition tech-
nology. Recognizes and converts scanned documents into ASCII text for
import into word processor, page layout, or desktop publishing program
or archived and retrieved later. Includes editor, layout and cut/copy/
paste functions. Supports character sizes from 8 to 36 points.

-- 
               Carlos D. Butler, buccb@after.math.uiuc.edu
     President of Butler Services--DTP, typing, and information gathering
    Champaign, IL      (217) 359-7632 Home	     (217) 373-4781 Pager
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