Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!know!news.cs.indiana.edu!ariel.unm.edu!triton.unm.edu!ee5391aa From: ee5391aa@triton.unm.edu (Duke McMullan n5gax) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Cheap Scanners and OCR's Message-ID: <1991Mar20.164423.16229@ariel.unm.edu> Date: 20 Mar 91 16:44:23 GMT References: <40269@cup.portal.com> <1991Mar18.165909.15857@ariel.unm.edu> <40320@cup.portal.com> Distribution: usa Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 9 In article <40320@cup.portal.com> David_Dave_Tamashiro@cup.portal.com writes: >Yea, I kind of have the feeling that these cheap OCR's will be >"good enough" to keep around as a toy, but not good enough to get >any real work done. Unfortunately (and not unexpectedly), that's consistent with my initial exper- iences...more to follow. d