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- From: buccb@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Carlos Dragonslayer Butler)
- Subject: Re: OCR Software?????
- Message-ID: <C0K6zx.Ks7@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- References: <1993Jan8.135219.488@otago.ac.nz>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:38:06 GMT
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- In a previous episode on comp.sys.next.software,
- athomson@otago.ac.nz (Alastair Thomson) drops complete science:
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- >I am looking for some good OCR software for my NeXTstation colour turbo. We
- >have a 600 dpi scanner that scans to TIFF files, and we would like to run these
- >through OCR. It needs to be accurate, and capable of recognising bold, italic
- >and normal text.
-
- I have found one OCR commercial software for the NeXT:
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- OCR Servant by HSD Microcomputer U.S., Inc.
- 700 KB disk space req.
- 1,500 installed
- 1991 debut
- $295 retail
- Free phone support
- Site licensing avail.
- OCR software that utilizes automatic omnifont recognition tech-
- nology. Recognizes and converts scanned documents into ASCII text for
- import into word processor, page layout, or desktop publishing program
- or archived and retrieved later. Includes editor, layout and cut/copy/
- paste functions. Supports character sizes from 8 to 36 points.
-
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