Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!PT.CS.CMU.EDU!andrew.cmu.edu!hg0g+ From: hg0g+@andrew.cmu.edu (Hunter R. Gordon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Questions (text readers) Message-ID: Date: 8 Mar 88 16:13:17 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Lines: 27 I have a couple questions about text readers. A friend of mine typed about 400 double-spaced pages of a book, and now he wants to put the book on his pc wordprocessor (I don't know which he has). He figures that it'll cost around a dollar a page to hire a typist and he is wondering if there is a cheaper and possibly faster way to do the job. I've heard only a little about text readers and was wondering if anyone knew enough about them to give me some advice. I know that there are some types that aren't as big and expensive as a copier, but use a device similar to a bar code reader to read the text line by line. Some questions I (we) have are: 1) What is available in the text reader market (low and high end)? 2) How much do they cost? 3) Can they be rented, and if so at what price? 4) For anyone in New York City: Does anyone happen to know where a text reader can be used, rented or if cheap, bought? I appreciate any information that can be sent my way (at hg0g+@andrew.cmu.edu). Thanks, Hunter Gordon