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From: rick@kimbal.lynn.ma.us (Rick Kimball)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: ASCII SCANNERS?
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Date: 27 Nov 90 04:33:31 GMT
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From article <49728@bsu-ucs.uucp>, by 00lhramer@bsu-ucs.uucp (Only to fly where angels dare - and the nights she whispers - Ride the wind never coming back again...):
> I am curious whether there exist scanners that actually translate the
> data that they read directly into ASCII.  I figure that most scanners
> read only bitmap code.

Claere (sp?) produces a system that scans and OCR's producing Ascii text
as output.

Yes, you guessed it, it is expensive.  20,000 comes to mind.  However,
they make a variety of configurations from bare boards that fit into
a PC all the way to stand alone unit that contain a scanner and OCR
system.

-- Rick