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From: kens@hpldola.HP.COM (Ken Shrum)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Optical Character Recognition software?
Message-ID: <11390012@hpldola.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Jun 88 16:06:10 GMT
References: <367@msn006.misemi>
Organization: HP Elec. Design Div. -ColoSpgs
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The problem of converting bitmaps to text is quite difficult due to
problems with multiple fonts, misaligned characters, etc.  The
additional problem is that the error rate has to be *extremely* low in
order to have the output be useful.  (One page of source has perhaps
3.5K character positions...)

There are companies which sell products that do this job - it's
probably worth contacting one of them.

	Ken Shrum
	hpldola!kens