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From: cabreu@marob.masa.com (Carlos Cabreu)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Fax & Signrecognition wanted ?
Summary: Only through a character recognition scheme ...
Keywords: Fax & OCR
Message-ID: <24F45C04.E8D@marob.masa.com>
Date: 24 Aug 89 20:35:16 GMT
References: <3719@cosmo2.UUCP>
Reply-To: cabreu@marob.masa.com (Carlos Manuel Abreu)
Organization: ESCC,  New York City
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Unfortunately, about the only way you're going to be able to convert a FAX
document into ASCII form is by scanning the bit image FAX graphics attempting
to recognize characters.  It's a relatively simple process if the document
uses a known font or typeface, but handwritten FAXes or esoteric fonts or
typefaces are probably a horror.
 
What system/os do you need this for?  Several products are already on the
market to address this issue.  I don't know how many can generate the ASCII
text on the fly (as it's being received), most of them do it after the fact
from a disk file.


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