[comp.sys.mac] AppleScanner OCR?

macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Christopher Silverberg) (02/28/90)

Question:

Is there software or hardware to enable an optical character recognition
system using the Apple Scanner?

-Thanks

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chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (02/28/90)

macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Christopher Silverberg) writes:

>Is there software or hardware to enable an optical character recognition
>system using the Apple Scanner?

I do a fair amount of OCR work using Omnipage 2.0 and an Apple scanner.
Works fine.

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consp22@bingsune.cc.binghamton.edu (Darren Handler) (02/28/90)

In article <9193@wpi.wpi.edu>, macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Christopher
Silverberg) writes:

> Question:
> 
> Is there software or hardware to enable an optical character recognition
> system using the Apple Scanner?
> 

Yes...Omni Page will use the Apple Scanner directly.  Or it can import a 
TIFF file and scan through it.

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