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From: jhm+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jim Morris)
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Subject: Re: Faxmodem/OCR combination... is it workable?
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Date: 22 Nov 89 20:15:46 GMT
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I don't think so. The main problem is that 200 dot-per-inch FAX makes it
hard for OCR to work. They do much better at 300 or 400 dpi.

I have an AppleFAX modem and OmniPage OCR software. At the moment, I
can't even transfer a received fax file to OmniPage because it won't
accept the compress TIFF files that AppleFAX writes out. Apparently,
Omnipage is distributing a fix for this, so we'll see.

My attempts to scan FAXes in an OCR them have always resulted in low
(<90%) recogntion rates and thus a lot of hand correction.