mwatson at uniwa.uwa.edu.au wrote:
: Hi Netters
: Do any of you magical computer brains out there know of a package
: (preferably costless as always) that can convert a scanned page
: of text into real ASCII text that can be edited? I have lost
: two copies of a 600 page document and do not fancy retyping the whole
: thing. Please help!!!
Most scanners come with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software
bundled with them. See if anyone on your campus has recently purchased a
scanner.
There may be shareware/public domain OCR software available, but I
do not know where. GIven that it comes bundled with scanners, I doubt
there is much incentive to provide it.
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* Brian Foley * If we knew what we were doing *
* Molecular Genetics Dept. * it wouldn't be called research *
* University of Vermont * *
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