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From: Gary.Petraccaro@f90.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Petraccaro)
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Subject: Re: KPR VS. Arkenstone
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Date: 25 Jul 90 16:26:07 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Chip,

     After responding to your message I remembered about one Les Barr left
some time ago.  He was talking about doing some scanning for his wife and
printed some material which he had scanned into a file.  It seemed to be
from a romance novel required for one of her courses.  What struck me was
that the Arkenstone appeared to do a significantly better job with this
material than I thought the Kurzweil would have.  I had tried to get the
Kurzweil to read a standard mass market paperback book and made little
headway.  With Les attempt, you could follow the story line fairly well
even though there were dropouts as one would expect.  The Kurzweil did very
well with trade sized paperbacks and probably would do at least as well
with hard covers.  Please, if you can, check out my impressions.

     On another matter, could you also report on the handling of the kind
of software manual where they print sample screens?  As I remember it, some
manuals print these in color so that the screen and page look similar (not
certain of this, though).

                                Gary

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