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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.misc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Character recognition
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Date: Sat, 24-Oct-87 17:14:14 EST
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In article <641@zen.UUCP> vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin) writes:
> 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.

	I don't know much about it, but a company called DEST markets a
300-dpi scanner for the Macintosh (and, I think, IBM-PC) for about $2k,
including character recognition software.  Unless your application has some
special requirements, I would imagine getting one of these jobs would be a
lot more cost-effective than writing your own software.

	I've added comp.sys.mac to the Newsgroups line to see if anybody
there has any experience with the DEST they could share.  While I'm at it,
can somebody compare and contrast the O($2k) scanners with the el-cheapo
Thunderscan for me.  What to the "real" scanners have going for them that I
can't do with a Thunderscan?
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016