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From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
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Subject: Re: OCR programs available?
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Date: 19 Oct 90 03:07:12 GMT
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In <3734@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> hqm@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Henry Minsky) writes:
...
>Does anyone have any experience with OCR packages (particularly
>xerox/kurzweil) that they can share with me. I am interested especially
>in something which could be run in a 'batch' mode for processing
>documents automatically.
...

The current PC Magazine (Oct 30, 1990, Vol 9. No. 18) reviews
9 OCR programs for the PC. They report a huge performance
difference between the best (OmniPage/386 & WordScan Plus) and the worst.

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