In article <1994Sep19.213949.3562 at emba.uvm.edu>, brianf at med.uvm.edu (Brian Foley) writes:
>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 *
Sorry, most scanners don't come bundled with OCR software these days. A recent
Microtek scanner purchased by our lab came with PhotoShop.
For OCR software, you can try 'cheap' for say under $200 or invest in $300-500
packages. I'd suggest investing in the higher end if you're serious about OCR.
The least expensive packages have a real difficult time reading scanned copy
evne after 'teaching' the software to recognize characters.
Regards, Tom.
