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From: collins@nvpna1.prl.philips.nl (Donal O Coileain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Scanners on Apollo ?
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Date: 26 Oct 89 15:15:08 GMT
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Reply-To: page@nvpna1.UUCP (Greg Pritchett)
Organization: Philips Research Labs (Nat Lab), Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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Does anyone know of any scanners which can be hooked up to Apollo
for scanning graphic images and also OCR/ICR( character recognition ? )
I simply want files to be created using some simple interface ( nothing
fancy ).

Basically, I'm looking for the simplest scanner possible. Only to scan 
images in, with a tool to be able to display them if they get saved in some
compressed format ( e.g FAX format ). Perhaps if there's an image editor 
as well, so you could put text on your scanned images, that would be useful.
The OCR is to enable you to scan documents and get ascii text out. Obviously
that would save on file size vs. it's equivalent image file.
The tool would produce a simple file e.g scan.bitmap, scan.compressed, 
scan.ascii, etc.

Thanks,
G.Pritchett
Philips Components Central Systems Support Group