scott@spectra.com (Tim Scott) (05/03/90)
I want to do a project which can be though of as: bunch of printed German material -> scan it -> OCR software -> text files -> language translation utility (from local company) -> manual cleaning up of translation not being an IBM MS-DOS expert, I beg of the Usenet Mind any info particularly about OCR software. Scanners are getting cheaper (no reason I can't use a hand held) and I have a line on the translation software. I notice that some OCR s/w is $50 and some is $400. Is this because the $400 package is 8 times better? I can only pay in brownie points. But I appreciate any info you feel like sending. Please email as I can't always plow through the 1,000 messages in here...