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From: sean@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Sean McLinden)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: OCR programs
Keywords: TextPert ReadIt! TextScan
Message-ID: <2695@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Date: 27 Apr 89 13:33:09 GMT
Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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I know that this has been discussed, before. I am looking for a
good but reasonably priced Optical Character Reader for either
one of the existing 300 DPI scanners, or an entire system (preferably
the former). I have seen TextScan and am not impressed with
its ability to handle text which is slightly rotated. I have heard
good things about ReadIt!, but have not seen it. Recently there
have been advertisements regarding TextPert which has, supposedly,
been around for a long time in Europe.

I would appreciate any and all suggestions for a text scanner and/or
software. TextPert is about $900 but I could spring for that if it
was really as good as they claim.

Please respond by mail, if possible. I'll post a summary if my
search of the archives of comp.text does not reveal that one
already exists.

Sean McLinden
Decision Systems Laboratory
University of Pittsburgh