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From:Don Cox
Date:6 Jun 2001 at 10:12:30
Subject:Re: (unknown)

On 05-Jun-01, Kevin Twyman wrote:
> Hello Folks,
>
> Does anyone remember MigraphOCR? I had it on my A4000 when I bought it
> as an 030/25, and tried Migraph, then gave up on it, it was hopeless.
>
> I found it again recently, and had another play with it. It's amazing
> what a scanner and 060/50 does to that program, it loads, it OCRs, it
> even learns, and it does it at a very acceptable speed as well.
>
> Obviously a product well before its time :-/

I use it now and then. It can work quite welll if the original is
clearly printed type scanned at about 300 dpi. If the original has
broken or joined-together letters, forget it.

The main thing is to realise that they use the word "dictionary" to mean
"typeface".

I think the best Mac and PC programs are far ahead here.

We could certainly use a good modern OCR program for the AmigaOne.
Somebody did try to write (or port) one a couple of years ago, but it
was useless.

Regards



Don Cox
doncox@enterprise.net

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