Xref: utzoo alt.fax:449 comp.sys.mac:43634 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!bs1k+ From: bs1k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Bryan Todd Schmersal) Newsgroups: alt.fax,comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Summary: Faxmodem/OCR combination Message-ID: Date: 6 Dec 89 22:19:53 GMT Organization: Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 16 Another reason that Faxmodems and OCR's really won't work together is that nothing is standardized. Many times, cover pages are hand written or you receive forms that have hand writing on them. This was the reason we, when we were working on our paperless fax system here at CMU for our software engineering class, didn't even consider trying to encorporate OCR in our project. SMURF ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CCCCC M M U U | Bryan T. Schmersal ==> SMURF bs1k+@andrew.cmu.edu C MM MM U U | Carnegie Mellon University (412)268-8579 C M M M U U | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 POST C M M U U | "I'd rather be a survivor at Carnegie NO CCCCC M M UUUUU | Mellon than a hero at Pitt." BILLS -----------------------------------------------------------------------------