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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: OCR needed
Message-ID: <1989Mar16.191524.23502@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 89 19:15:24 GMT

One of our people here has asked me to inquire about whether there are
good optical-character-recognition scanners available hereabouts,
preferably on campus.  He has a great pile of old printouts -- endless
pages of numbers -- that he wants in machine-readable form.  Unfortunately,
the print quality is not terribly good.  It's old line-printer output.
It's not dot-matrix, thank the lord, but the printer it was done on was
not consistently well-aligned and it's not uncommon for the right quarter
of a character to be chopped off.  He needs something that either (a) is
seriously smart, or (b) can be trained to deal with chopped characters.
He's already tried UTCS; theirs isn't good enough.  Any ideas?
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