Sundar_Prasad@mtsg.ubc.ca (Sundar) (03/11/90)
Hiya all, I would like to hear from people using OCR software on the Macintosh. Please let me know what package you are using, what scanner you are hooked up to, praises and gripes. If there are enough responses, I'll also post a summary to the net. Thanks in advance for any info. Sundar_Prasad@mtsg.ubc.ca <Internet> userffa3@ubcmtsg <Bitnet> Civil Engineering UBC, Vancouver V6T 1W5 CANADA <Snailnet>
hammen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Robert Hammen) (03/12/90)
In article <7129@ubc-cs.UUCP> Sundar_Prasad@mtsg.ubc.ca (Sundar) writes: >I would like to hear from people using OCR software on the Macintosh. I've just spent the last two weeks working with 10 different OCR packages for the Mac and PC (it's going to be in an upcoming article in Personal Publishing). OCR packages (generally) come in two flavors: trainable (you teach it how to read characters in specific fonts) or omnifont (recognizes all kinds of different fonts). Programs in the first category are Read-It (Olduvai), TextScan (Prism), TextPert (CTA), and Readstar II Plus (Inovatic). The big contenders in the non-trainable realm are OmniPage (Caere) and AccuText (Xerox). The omnifont programs are pretty good, if you're not doing trying to read funky stuff. They do require heavy resources (68020 or greater, and 5 MB RAM or more), however, so if you've got a Plus or SE, you may want to stick with Read-It! or TextScan. What kind of documents are you interested in reading? What kind of scanner do you have? /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// / Robert Hammen | Technical Editor | Personal Publishing Magazine / / hammen@ddsw1.mcs.com | 76702.1135@compuserve.com | GEnie: R.HAMMEN / ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////