OCR Software?????

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4 total messages Started by Alastair Thomson Fri, 08 Jan 1993 00:52

#1761

Author: Alastair Thomson
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 00:52

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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.

Thanks in advance
Alastair

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Re: OCR Software?????

#1796

Author: 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.

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               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
          "People often condescend what they fail to comprehend...

Address for HSD Microcomputer

#1832

Author: Alastair Thomson
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 00:24

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In article <C0K6zx.Ks7@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, buccb@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Carlos Dragonslayer Butler) writes:

Does anyone have either e-mail address or FAX number for HSD Microcomputer??


> 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.

===============================================================================
                                    |
Alastair Thomson,                   | Phone +64-3-479-8347
University of Otago,                | Fax   +64-3-479-8529
Department of Computer Science,     | e-mail athomson@otago.ac.nz
P.O. Box 56                         |
Dunedin                             |
New Zealand                         |
 
   "God loved the world so much, that he gave us His Son, to die in 
    our place, so that we may have eternal life" John 3:16, paraphrase

===============================================================================

Re: Address for HSD Microcomputer

#1880

Author: Carlos Dragonslayer Butler
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:23

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In a previous episode on comp.sys.next.software,
athomson@otago.ac.nz (Alastair Thomson) drops complete science:

>In article <C0K6zx.Ks7@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, buccb@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Carlos Dragonslayer Butler) writes:
>
>Does anyone have either e-mail address or FAX number for HSD Microcomputer??

HSD Microcomputer U.S., Inc.
1350 Pear Ave., Ste. C
Mountain View, CA 94043
800-828-5522; 415-964-1400;
FAX: 415-964-1538; Tech support: Use main no.
Sales: $3,500,000; Empl. 7; Est. 1989; Privately held.

-- 
               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
          "People often condescend what they fail to comprehend...

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