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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: scanner and OCR software
Message-ID: <154@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 25 Aug 89 12:04:35 GMT
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  There is very little for the PC which will do a good job reading proportional fonts. We looked at everything available about a year ago and came up
with Scangal and the HP scanner. Their OCR software foes quite a good job
on constant width, but is not useful for proportional.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon