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From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: Multi-font OCR scanners
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Date: Mon, 18-May-87 15:34:50 EDT
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From: rbl@nitrex.UUCP ( Dr. Robin Lake )
Date: 18 May 87 13:02:49 GMT
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Organization: The Standard Oil Co., Cleveland

>I am told that a $36k Kurtzweil multi-font scanner will do just about
>everything I want.  (Not sure about a Macintosh interface.)  But I
>will never be able to afford that.  Should I wait a few years, or is
>one of these current products really capable of reading most of the
>submissions to my newsletter so that I can convert them all to some
>pleasant consistent font?  That would make my newsletter look more
>like a magazine and less like a piece of patchwork.

We have a 4 year old Kurzweil.  It has not been able to handle dot
matrix well, but we have not tried to fiddle with the threshold settings,
etc. to make it do so.  We are looking at a new system made by Palantir
this Thursday.  We'll give dot matrix a try and let you know.

Rob Lake

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