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I have been requested to ask around for information about what "people" (or 
institutions) are charging for OCR (Optical Character Reading/Scanning).
We at the University of Toronto, are evaluating the cost/charge for owning
such a machine.

What I would like is the following:

1) which machine (and model) are you using?  [ie. Kurzweil 4000 or others]

2) what is being charged and how much?  [ie. is charge based on number of 
   characters read or the amount of operator time, or both, or other?]

3) what type of work is mostly done?  [ie. "simple" text in Times Roman or
   other fonts.  A rough brake down in percentage would be most usefull;
   something like -- 60% Times Roman, 15% Cyrillic fonts, 10% Greek fonts
   etc.  Any other information would be appreciated.]

4) what is the machine configuration?  [ie. offline with tape drive, or
   attached to a mainframe for data storage, etc.]

Any other additional information, caveat emptors, etc. would be very welcomed.
Please mail replies to:

...!{utzoo,decvax,ihnp4}!utcs!lidio

If there are sufficient replies I will summarize. 
As they say -- "thanks in advance"

Lidio Presutti
Humanities Computer Application Support
University of Toronto Computing Services