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From: paul@csnz.nz (Paul Gillingwater)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FAX -> text
Keywords: FAX OCR
Message-ID: <58@csnz.nz>
Date: 1 Sep 88 14:08:10 GMT
References: <237@pbseps.UUCP>
Reply-To: paul@csnz.UUCP (Paul Gillingwater)
Organization: Computer Sciences of New Zealand, Wellington, NZ
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In article <237@pbseps.UUCP> rdp@pbseps.PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman) writes:
>I am looking for software/hardware to allow the reception of a
>FAX document on a computer (PC, MAC, UNIX, ??) and then "read"
>the FAX with OCR software into an ascii document.
>
I've seen an article on the fact that British Telecom have been working
on this problem for some time, and expect to have a solution on the market
by mid next year (1989).  Their version will be a bus card for the good
ol' IBM PC of course, and will almost certainly run under DOS.

BT rebadge Zenith PCs and call them Merlin or somesuch, so I guess 
there will be a version that runs on them too.

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