Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!news From: news@j.cc.purdue.edu (Usenet news) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Do ASCII scanners exist? Message-ID: <11593@j.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 2 Dec 90 01:28:47 GMT References: <49716@bsu-ucs.uucp> <1028@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu> Reply-To: zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Zhou) Organization: Purdue University Lines: 9 capable of learning any kind of fonts. Unfortunately it does not work very well. Besides the limitation of the algorithms used in this software, the quality of my image scanner is probably another factor. While the discipline of pattern recognition and AI are still at a primitive level, it is not realistic to have too high an expectation on such kind of PC applications. From: zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Zhou) Path: brazil.psych.purdue.edu!zhou I guess I'll just return this software in a few days. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com