walt@portia.Stanford.EDU (walter garcia-fontes) (03/03/90)
I need advice on the following application: I need to scan data from
printed statistical tables (in different formats) to a spreadsheet. I
would appreciate info on the following topics:
0) Is this procedure advisable and can it be reliable?
1) Cheap hand-held scanners for IBM PCs and their performance, if
what I'm asking is possible with cheap scanners.
2) Availability of software to transform scanned images into text
files importable to a spreadsheet and how reliable this procedure
is.
Please e-mail your suggestions to me and if there is enough interest
I'll post a summary, or send it to anybody who asks me about it.
Thanks in advance,
Walter Garcia-Fontes. Bitnet: walter@suwatson
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