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From: jru@etn-rad.UUCP (John Unekis)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Optical Character Recognition software?
Keywords: OCR Sun rasterfile
Message-ID: <542@etn-rad.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 88 01:22:01 GMT
References: <367@msn006.misemi>
Reply-To: jru@etn-rad.UUCP (John Unekis)
Organization: Eaton Inc. IMSD, Westlake Village, CA
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In article <367@msn006.misemi> camille@spock.UUCP (Camille Goudeseune) writes:
>We've just got a 300 DPI scanner that can read in 8.5 by 11" pages, and
> ...
>in.  Has anyone in Netland heard of, or using, programs to convert bitmaps
>to text?  This wheel doesn't bear re-inventing.
... I haven't heard of any stand-alone software to do this, but DEST of 
  San Jose makes a 300 dpi scanner that reads the text (process is called
  Optical Character Recognition or OCR) on the fly.