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Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re:  Document Scanners
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Date: 28 Jul 88 22:52:17 GMT
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Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mtn View, CA
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	We have evaluated a number of OCR/scanners (we resell such
things). My experience of the Palantir CDP (Compound Document
Processor) is that it works pretty well. We use it hooked up to the
Ethernet (it acts as a pretty dumb host), it can also connect RS232
or SCSI. Particularly neat is that the scanner and OCR guts are
seperate logical units, meaning that you can can without OCR or
down-load existing images for further OCR. Recognition rate is pretty
fair considering the range of input that it can cope with.
	We have also evaluated a unit from AEG (Germany), which whilst
not a digitizer in the normal sense (it doesn't deliver images) does a
pretty good job of reading forms, including hand-print!
	I can give you contacts if interested.

        Martin Reed, Racal Imaging Systems Ltd
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