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From: ba@pbhyg.PacBell.COM (3333 25th St. #800)
Newsgroups: misc.wanted,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: IBM/MAC scanners
Message-ID: <1519@pbhyg.PacBell.COM>
Date: 16 Nov 88 16:18:37 GMT
References: <105@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>
Reply-To: ba@pbhyg.PacBell.COM (Behzad Alavi)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <105@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> GAM@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu writes:
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>I heard there is a MAC scanner which uses a program called OMNI for optical
>character recognition.  Has anyone seen a demonstration?  Is there one
>available for the IBM PC?  Is there another list available I should subscribe
                   ^^^^^^^

      Yes, there is such program available for HP SCANJET.  The name
      skips my mind, but I am sure anywhere you lookup a scanjet, they
      should point out the available OCR as well as Graphic packages
      that you may use with HP Scanjet.

      The graphic scanner, by the way, scans at a resolution of 300 x 300
      and producessome impressive images.  The image we scanned was a
      color photograph of a group of 50 people.  You could pretty much
      recognize the faces in the black and white print of the scanned
      image.  (It took 3+ minutes to print!, and the storage requirements
      are substantial, can go up to 3 meg per image).

      With the OCR, you're able to scan a letter, statement, etc. and
      then modify the scanned text with any word processor.  Depending
      on the clarity and crispness of the original text, you may
      reach 100% accuracy through OCR.

      
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Behzad Alavi      +-----------------------------------+
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