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From: anderson@uwmacc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: OCR for handwritten documents
Message-ID: <1633@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 14-Jun-87 21:37:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1633
Posted: Sun Jun 14 21:37:52 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 16-Jun-87 01:00:46 EDT
Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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I have a large, handwritten document that I would like to read
with a scanner and convert the original text to Ascii text. I
suppose the hardest part of the problem is teaching the program
recognize the several signs that can represent any given letter.
The expert system itself doesn't seem to me like the daunting
part. The hardest part would be recognizing the signs, since I
know nothing about that problem theoretically. The document is
big, you see -- over 37,000 pages -- and even counting in the
time it would take me to develop the software, there would be
a likely saving over the time it would take to enter the text
by keying it in. The original took 14 years to write.

I'd appreciate any pointers anyone had to offer.
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