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From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: OCR Software
Message-ID: <450@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 90 21:56:46 GMT
References: <743@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU>
Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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Keywords: Scanner Text OCR
Summary: me too

In article <743@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU>, flash@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Stephen Corbesero) writes:
> 
> We would like to use a full page scanner to read a page of text.  Are
> there any good software packages out there to read an image file and
> do the necessary image processing to convert it to ASCII?  I have seen
> references to some packages that cost in the range of $150-$300, as
> add-ons to some hand-held scanners.  A public domain program would be
> our first choice, but we would certainly like to know what a good
> package is if we need to buy one.

I'll bet a lot of people are looking for this.  Although, if I had to, I
would settle for a DOS program that does this, what I would really like to
get is source so it could be ported to UNIX.  I realize there is a lot of
work in teaching it fonts but I seems that if we (the USENET community)
could come up with something like this, this would be ideal place to get a
fancy, debugged version in the long run.

I, for one, would be willing to put some effort into such a project.
-- 
Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155  (206)FOR-UNIX
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