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Date: 4 Feb 91 21:08:22 GMT
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in respose to a posting of mine regarding the logitech scan man plus:


Paul Howard writes:




Derek --

I picked up ScanManPlus AND the CatchWord OCR software in a package
for $199US in December at Electronics Boutique, a store in a mall in
Kingston MA.  Catchword is pretty good sometimes, if the text is clear
(e.g., a typeset book) but not very good on messy texts (e.g.,
newspaper).  It seems to have some bugs -- it lets you change a
character model (e.g., it lets you look at everything it thought was
an "S", and you can tell it "No that one is a "5"") but it gets very
stubborn about "1", "l", and "I" -- even after you tell it "That's a
"1"" it keeps it as an "I".

I bought mine on an impulse, but it did save me some time keying in a
program from a textbook.

Please let me know if you hear of any other (cheap) compatible OCR
software.  Thanks.

-- Paul


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Paul G. Howard         pgh@cs.brown.edu
Brown University       (401) 863-7672
Computer Science Dept.
Providence RI 02912--1910






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