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From: Jim.Fruchterman@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Fruchterman)
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Subject: Re: KPR VS Arkenstone
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Date: 12 Apr 91 22:23:02 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Hi, I just dropped in on this thread and thought I'd add a little
bit.  Batch processing is where you scan now, recognize later.  You
spend a half hour scanning the pages of a book, two at a time, saving
the images on disk, one scan every twenty or thirty seconds.  The
recognition, which might take two or three minutes a pair of pages,
is done later while you aren't slaving over the scanner.  It is a
really big win over scanning for four or five hours waiting for each
page to finish.

I want to point out that Arkenstone ships two major interfaces with
each system: EasyScan and ArkScan.  ArkScan is the standard Calera
commercial menu system wuth the new Arkenstone features of automatic
orientation, quick speech, tone feedback, verbosity settings, prompt
settings, user dictionaries, etc. added into it, and, made so it works
smoothly with access device.  The benefit is that it offers a menu
interface instead of the command driven easyscan interface, for people
who like menus better than command driven stuff.  An advantage compared
to the Kurzweil menu system is that you don't have to step through
each menu choice to change something - you can go directly to it.

On the HP ScanJet Plus 600 dpi issue - that is marketing hype that
HP got dragged into.  All scanners commonly available have 300 dpi
or 400 dpi scanning elements.  Those who claim more than their scanning
element are doing pixel doubling or averaging.  This adds no more
information for OCR and slows done the process.  Running an HP at
more than 300 dpi is a waste of time.  The Panasonic is the unit that
we recommend for 400 dpi scanning, for people who really need to read
small stuff.  But remember, the Calera spec for point size reading
using 300 dpi images is the same as the Kurzweil 400 dpi spec...
jim f

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