Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!uwvax!umn-d-ub!nic.MR.NET!shamash!nis!ems!pwcs!dennisg From: dennisg@pwcs.StPaul.GOV (Dennis Grittner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Let's Talk OCR Keywords: OCR, Apple, Scanner Message-ID: <6054@pwcs.StPaul.GOV> Date: 4 Oct 88 18:46:43 GMT References: <3165@sdsu.UUCP> <10204@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <17907@apple.Apple.COM> Reply-To: dennisg@pwcs.StPaul.GOV (Dennis Grittner) Organization: City of Saint Paul, Dept. of Public Works Lines: 43 Well, every once in a while you see a piece of software work that is pretty darned good and you feel the need to comment on it - - Omnipage is such a piece of software. Last Friday we got our Apple Scanner - it seems competent enough - nothing special and we also got Omnipage. I haven't read the manual yet! It works well enough and obviously enough that I've scanned in Pulp Newspaper scruff in columns into Macwrite, typed documents with 100% recognition or darned near most of the time and the ability to scan multiple pages into a single document. It is FAST and very accurate - compared to anything else in it's price range that I know about. I would recommend that folks stick with a Mac II since that is the way the software is shipped. You can send your disk off and get a 68000 version but I don't think they really intend for a whole lot of folk to do that cause of the speed difference. I think they are probably hard-coding for the math co-processor ( 68881 ) so they can't let you run the same software on a 68000 ( just a guess ). Where could it be improved? The retention of layout. Sometimes it gets pretty confused about where things should go relative to columns, etc. I suspect that a future release might make this work better - but I'm guessing here. Again, I haven't read the manual but I don't see TOO many ways to automatically keep complex formatting in a scanned document. I am very impressed with the software - hope they make a bundle of $$$ and continue to work and improve the software. I'm recommending it to anybody who might want to do some OCR scanning. Apple sure got lucky on this one cause the Apple software that comes with the scanner is OK but Omnipage makes the scanner worthwhile all by itself, and the some -- Dennis Grittner City of Saint Paul, Minnesota (612) 298-4402 Room 700, 25 W. 4th St. 55102 "Let's just put Ollie, Ronnie, and George in jail!"