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From: walt@portia.Stanford.EDU (walter garcia-fontes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Scanning in data to spreadsheets
Keywords: scanners, spreadsheets
Message-ID: <9728@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 2 Mar 90 18:52:59 GMT
Sender: walt@portia.stanford.edu
Organization: Stanford University
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I need advice on the following application: I need to scan data from 
printed statistical tables (in different formats) to a spreadsheet. I
would appreciate info on the following topics:

0) Is this procedure advisable and can it be reliable? 
1) Cheap hand-held scanners for IBM PCs and their performance, if
   what I'm asking is possible with cheap scanners.
2) Availability of software to transform scanned images into text
   files importable to a spreadsheet and how reliable this procedure
   is.


Please e-mail your suggestions to me and if there is enough interest
I'll post a summary, or send it to anybody who asks me about it.
Thanks in advance,

Walter Garcia-Fontes.   Bitnet: walter@suwatson
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