Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!humu!uhccux!yuan
From: yuan@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Yuan 'Hacker' Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: OCR Software for Scanjet
Keywords: ReadRight, SPOT
Message-ID: <3310@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 89 07:12:45 GMT
References: <7336@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: yuan@uhccux.UUCP (Yuan 'Hacker' Chang)
Organization: Univ. of Barbarians.  Honolulu, Hawaii
Lines: 16

In article <7336@pyr.gatech.EDU> is813cs@pyr.gatech.edu (Cris Simpson) writes:
>Can anyone give me suggestions on OCR SW for the HP Scanjet?
>How is HP's ReadRight package?

	ReadRight can only read fixed-space fonts around 11 - 13 points.
Pica and Courier seems to work fine, and maybe Roman (such as the NLQ type
from Epson FX printers).  For a program that can read proportional spaced
fonts, FlagStff Engineering's SPOT is a good choice.  It'll "learn"
whatever font you have (sufficiently dark, of course).  Only problem is
that it's a bit on the pricey side (~ $1,000).  So it all depends on what
your needs are.
-- 
Yuan Chang 				      "What can go wrong, did"
UUCP:      {uunet,ucbvax,dcdwest}!ucsd!nosc!uhccux!yuan
ARPA:	   uhccux!yuan@nosc.MIL               "Wouldn't you like to 
INTERNET:  yuan@uhccux.UHCC.HAWAII.EDU         be an _A_m_i_g_o_i_d too?!?"