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From: gm@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Greg McGary)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Need to textify phone-book yellow-pages with an optical scanner
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Date: 21 Jan 89 16:35:55 GMT
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Does anyone know of an optical scanner that can read phone-book pages
and turn them into text?  How about something messy like Yellow-pages,
with mixtures of graphics and text of different sizes?

I'm not very interested in owning such a beast, since I'm certain it'll
cost too much.  I'd rather pay for a service that will scan a hundred
or so pages and give me a floppy disk with the results.
-- Greg McGary
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