[net.unix] OCR for UNIX?

wcs@homxa.UUCP (Bill Stewart HO 4K-437 x0705) (04/10/84)

Does anyone have / know about Optical Character Recognition
equipment that could be hooked up to a UNIX(tm) system?
(If it matters, I use VAXen with DZ ports, but I assume generic
RS-232 is appropriate..)

			Thanks;
				Bill Stewart
				AT&T Bell Lab, Holmdel NJ
				{BTL}!ho95b!wcs

cowan@udel-relay.ARPA (04/23/84)

From:      Ken Cowan <cowan@udel-relay.ARPA>

	I once had an OCR connected to a VAX running VMS.  We used a
Bell 103 modem.  Simple?  In order to "control" the thing, we had
a terminal hooked to the same modem via a crazy plug.  At the
terminal, the user started a program that was expecting input fom
the terminal, and then feed the paper through the OCR.

	Hope this helps.
	Ken