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From: mjlanham@eos.ncsu.edu (MICHAEL JAY LANHAM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Scanners and Character recognition
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Date: 10 Oct 90 00:40:53 GMT
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I recall reading a review of Catchword(tm) from Logitech in PC Magazine (?) 
that is specifucally designed to be used with Scanman.  The article gave the
program outstanding reviews.  I think it had teach character font recognition
and a few other bells and whistles.  I do not recall seeing a time
factor presented within the article.  I do know the program costs around
$150 not
counting to $200 or so for the scanner.

I have used the Scanman but only for line art.  For that I can say that
it is very good a capture black and white line art--as for text I don't know.

Best of luck.