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From: vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin)
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Subject: Character recognition
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Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 08:47:55 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 16 08:47:55 1987
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I have been puttering about for the past few weeks with an HP ScanJet (one
of those 300dpi digitizers). I have been asked to write some software which
can (given an image produced by the scanner) reproduce the original text of
the paper in a machine readable form.

The text will normally be numbers and the image will initially be a bit
pattern.

If someone can point me to some introductory texts on character recognition
I would be grateful.

If someone has already tackled this problem, any help I can get will be much
appreciated.

		vic
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