Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!ig!uwmcsd1!bbn!rochester!rocksanne!entire!elt From: elt@entire.UUCP (Edward L. Taychert) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Optical Character Recognition software? Summary: I've had better luck Message-ID: <3203@entire.UUCP> Date: 14 Jun 88 13:37:46 GMT References: <367@msn006.misemi> <11390012@hpldola.HP.COM> <10160@ames.arc.nasa.gov> Organization: Entire Inc, East Rochester, NY Lines: 40 In article <10160@ames.arc.nasa.gov>, eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene N. Miya) writes: > This is a brief summary of my experiences in the OCR field up to today > when I had yet another Demo of OCR systems. I've been asked to look at > one more and will report on it some time. > (stuff gone) > > The Kurzweil is a system wich requires training. It takes several My Kurzweil Discover does not require training. Indeed, this is pushed as their advantage over other systems. No training is required. You put the document in the scanner and it converts it. > ..... > too high (able one per line? Well the DEST/Kur* were 4-7 errors > per line on my sample text, much too high. Why, my typo rate is It all depends, When I run typewriter courier through the Kurzweil, I typically get 100% recoginition accuracy. (That's ZERO errors, page after page). If I run 5x7 dot matrix through it, I typically get 100% gobbledy gook. Small print, < 8 points increases the error rate too. My Kurzweil Summary: typeset pages - perfect or near perfect (nothings really perfect...) laser writer print (300dpi) - two or three errors per page many pin(24) dot matrix - untested 5x9 dot matrix - useless > .... > Another gross generalization from > Yes, I think this might be the case for me too... :-) -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Ed Taychert Phone: USA (716) 381-7500 Entire Inc. UUCP: rochester!rocksanne!entire!elt 445 E. Commercial Street East Rochester, N.Y. 14445 _____________________________________________________________________________