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Article #392OCR needed
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1989 19:15
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1989 19:15
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One of our people here has asked me to inquire about whether there are good optical-character-recognition scanners available hereabouts, preferably on campus. He has a great pile of old printouts -- endless pages of numbers -- that he wants in machine-readable form. Unfortunately, the print quality is not terribly good. It's old line-printer output. It's not dot-matrix, thank the lord, but the printer it was done on was not consistently well-aligned and it's not uncommon for the right quarter of a character to be chopped off. He needs something that either (a) is seriously smart, or (b) can be trained to deal with chopped characters. He's already tried UTCS; theirs isn't good enough. Any ideas? -- Welcome to Mars! Your | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology passport and visa, comrade? | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
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Newsgroups: ut.general,tor.general Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: OCR needed Message-ID: <1989Mar16.191524.23502@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Date: Thu, 16 Mar 89 19:15:24 GMT