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From: rnovak@mips.COM (Robert E. Novak)
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Subject: Re: Faxmodem/OCR combination... is it workable?
Message-ID: <32142@abbott.mips.COM>
Date: 26 Nov 89 00:39:31 GMT
References: <39963@improper.coherent.com> <8ZOjtmS00Uh_E1uolE@andrew.cmu.edu>
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In article <8ZOjtmS00Uh_E1uolE@andrew.cmu.edu> jhm+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jim Morris) writes:
>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.

I have The Complete PC Fax card and a DEST scanner.  I've been unable to
transfer files directly in software, but rescans of printed FAXes have had
a very high success rate for me!

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