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From: ap@deimos.caltech.edu (Alain Picard)
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Subject: Scanners and Character recognition
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I would like to know if anyone has experience with scanners
and character recognition software, in particular the
inexpensive had scanner ScanMan by Logitech.

I am not very intersted in scanning pictures; I want
to scan abstracts of papers and so on and put them in
a database, so it needs to be good at character recognition.
I have seen OmniPage work on a Macintosh IIci, and It took about
3 minutes to do the text recognition (with a full page scanner, however).

Can anyone tell me how well the Logitech system works?
85% accuracy? 99% ? Does it take less that 5 min per page, 
say, on a 16Mhz 386SX system ?

Otherwise, what is the cheapest decent system that I can get,
if hand-held scanners are inadequate?

							Alain Picard
E-mail or posting is fine.  Thanks!