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From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Need to textify phone-book yellow-pages with an optical scanner
Message-ID: <1664@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 89 20:13:25 GMT
References: <13143@duke.cs.duke.edu>
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In article <13143@duke.cs.duke.edu>, gm@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Greg McGary) writes:
> 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?

Here is an alternative: buy the info on mag tape from the phone company.
I don't know what you expect the scanner to do with the graphics but if
what you really want is just the name, address and phone, it is available.
I looked into this for a project.  Locally US West will let you select
by various categories and they just charge you per name.
-- 
Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155  (206)FOR-UNIX
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