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- From: fgd3@nifty.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe, III)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Subject: Re: WinFAX PRO v3: OCR
- Message-ID: <fgd3.03dv@nifty.UUCP>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 16:48:27 EST
- References: <C0699s.A5r@hkuxb.hku.hk> <1i2g26INN3lc@mirror.digex.com> <1993Jan2.104356.90892@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- In article <1993Jan2.104356.90892@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> neiger@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Neiger) writes:
- >In article <1i2g26INN3lc@mirror.digex.com>, burgoyne@access.digex.com (J. Robert Burgoyne) writes:
- >> In article <C0699s.A5r@hkuxb.hku.hk> h8915726@hkuxa.hku.hk writes:
- >>>
- >>> I got WinFAX Pro v3 running, it's very good, but the OCR does
- >>> not seem live up to what I expect. It can recognise mostly
- >>> on courier font, once I change to other fonts, it seems
- >>> that the SPACE character is not recgonised at all, all
- >>> words scrabble into one. Any ideas?
- >>
- >> There are high end OCR products which don't do a whole lot better.
-
- I once played around with Perceive Personal (an OCR program that doesn't
- get the highest marks) and a hand scanner. It deciphered scanned images
- with various fonts and achieved about a 90% accuracy rate. If the Winfax
- OCR program can't do that well I would say it is unsatisfactory.
-
- I've also used Calera (a very highly rated OCR program) with a Hewlett
- Packard ScanJet and the results were around 95%-98% accurate. OCR
- technology still has a long way to go.
-
- >> Convince the senders to just send you the file with a modem!
-
- An excellent idea if it is possible. Life is a lot easier if you can
- maintain everything in machine-readable form.
-
- >I have been reading a review of Ultrafax from Z-Soft and it seems to be a better
- >alternative. In addition to OCR (which I personally believe may or may not work
- >although the dealer reckons that it is 95% accurate) it also features
-
- Most OCR software I've seen claims a 95% accuracy rate. That sounds
- pretty good. If you think about it, getting five characters wrong out of
- every 100 read still requires a lot of manual correction. Still, it is
- better than having to retype the material by hand.
-
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