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- Subject: Re: OCR Scanners/Software
- Message-ID: <0095FCFD.0A5A4020@vms.csd.mu.edu>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 15:25:26 GMT
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- In article <92234.194124TEB106@psuvm.psu.edu>, TEB106@psuvm.psu.edu (Tom billet) writes:
- |>Hi,
- |>
- |>Has anyone experimented with any Optical Character Recognition Scannners? I
- |>would like to scan in a multi-page document and then be able to do text
- |>searches, spell checks etc. in my word processor (or using the software
- |>that comes with the scanner). If anyone has had any experiences (good or
- |>bad) with OCR scanners please send me a note. Thanks in advance...
- |>
- |>TEB106 at PSUVM.Edu
- |>Tom Billet
-
- I have used HP ScanJet flatbed scanner with Wordscan software
- from Calera. It's pretty good scanner. With this combination
- one should be able to do the above mentioned things easily.
- However, I wish the scanning speed was little faster.
-
- -Anis, Marquette University.
-