WINOCR is an Optical Character Recognition program. It works with bitmaps produced using low cost hand-held scanners and is intended to provide a cheap an effective method of data entry for computer programmers. It works by pattern matching the glyph that it is given (the bitmap of an individual character) against the typical appearance of each character in the character set and chooses the closest match. To do this it requires a template that describes the font and size of character that it is looking for.
The program will not work correctly if you do not take sufficient care setting up the templates. However, the advantage of using templates is the speed, and the fact that for a given book or magazine that you are working from you only have to set up the template once.
WinOCR can recognise all the printable characters from the ASCII character set (from ! to ~). This means that you can concentrate on your programming and let your scanner do the typing.
The program has been specially designed to work with the low-cost hand held scanners that are becoming increasingly common.
Note: This program does not have any scanning capabilities. You must create a BMP of the page you which to have it convert to text with another program.
To run, launch: WINOCR.EXE
Documentation: README.DOC, MANUAL.WRI (Windows Write or Wordpad) plus Online Help
