lidio@utcs.UUCP (Lidio Presutti) (01/03/85)
I have been requested to ask around for information about what "people" (or
institutions) are charging for OCR (Optical Character Reading/Scanning).
We at the University of Toronto, are evaluating the cost/charge for owning
such a machine.
What I would like is the following:
1) which machine (and model) are you using? [ie. Kurzweil 4000 or others]
2) what is being charged and how much? [ie. is charge based on number of
characters read or the amount of operator time, or both, or other?]
3) what type of work is mostly done? [ie. "simple" text in Times Roman or
other fonts. A rough brake down in percentage would be most usefull;
something like -- 60% Times Roman, 15% Cyrillic fonts, 10% Greek fonts
etc. Any other information would be appreciated.]
4) what is the machine configuration? [ie. offline with tape drive, or
attached to a mainframe for data storage, etc.]
Any other additional information, caveat emptors, etc. would be very welcomed.
Please mail replies to:
...!{utzoo,decvax,ihnp4}!utcs!lidio
If there are sufficient replies I will summarize.
As they say -- "thanks in advance"
Lidio Presutti
Humanities Computer Application Support
University of Toronto Computing Services