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From: wizard@sosaria.imp.com (Chris Brand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: OCR for Amiga, is there any?
Message-ID: <3460.AA3460@sosaria>
Date: 23 Jul 90 18:23:55 GMT
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In article <728@inesc.UUCP> jmc@inesc.UUCP (Miguel Casteleiro) says:
> The subject says it all!  I'm interest in an Optical Character Reader (OCR)
> for the Amiga.  If you know if there is any, then please email me or post it.
> Thank You.

Yes, there is one I know (and use). It's delivered with the Professional
Scanner by PrintTechnik (Germany). The scanner is a 600dpi machine (I have
5 megs and still can't scan anything larger that a stamp with 600 dpi :-).
Unfortunately, the rest of the Scanner controlling software is a piece of
sh*t (sorry). You can do nearly nothing except click on the SCAN button and
adjust the size of the paper you want to scan. No pre-scan, no Zoom,
nothing. As for the OCR: It works, the teaching is o.k., but forget it for
any typeface smaller than a normal computer print. Even with documents with
this size, you have to correct about 6 of 10 words manually afterwards.


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