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From: stl@sfsup.UUCP (Saify Lanewala)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: HELP w. Optical Char Recognizers
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Date: 4 Feb 88 15:24:21 GMT
Organization: AT&T-IS, Summit N.J. USA
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Hi!

Does any one in Netland have any information for me regarding
*CHEAP* (is it possible ?!) Optical Character Recognizers that
can be hooked up to an Amiga or (Forgive me !) the I-machine?

I need to be able to read hieroglyphics (sp?) off a written
page and convert them into displayable characters onscreen.
In other words, I want to be able to reproduce the page on
the screen after understanding what I'm going to display on
the screen.

This device would accept a downloaded map that described the
characters of interest.  Upon finding a pattern match, it would
signal the host processor with some code describing the character
it found, and where on the page it found it.

Am I making sense, or should I go burrow somewhere?


Thanks in advance for any ideas you guys may have about this.




Saify Lanewala
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