fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) (02/01/90)
In article <743@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU>, flash@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Stephen Corbesero) writes: > > We would like to use a full page scanner to read a page of text. Are > there any good software packages out there to read an image file and > do the necessary image processing to convert it to ASCII? I have seen > references to some packages that cost in the range of $150-$300, as > add-ons to some hand-held scanners. A public domain program would be > our first choice, but we would certainly like to know what a good > package is if we need to buy one. I'll bet a lot of people are looking for this. Although, if I had to, I would settle for a DOS program that does this, what I would really like to get is source so it could be ported to UNIX. I realize there is a lot of work in teaching it fonts but I seems that if we (the USENET community) could come up with something like this, this would be ideal place to get a fancy, debugged version in the long run. I, for one, would be willing to put some effort into such a project. -- Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155 (206)FOR-UNIX uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl or attmail!ssc!fyl (206)527-3385
belanger@philmtl.philips.ca (Robert Belanger) (02/01/90)
We have here two OCR from Calera Inc ( previously known as Palantir Corp ) One is a PC add-on card (AT-size) with a 68020 and lots of ram(2or4 megs) and connection for a SCSI port for a scanner. We also have a UNIX add-on which is a Ethernet connected-scanner and OCR. it contains 4 68000 and the new version we do not have contains 4 68020 CPUs. It does a fair to very good job depending on the quality of the input. scanning is fast (1 min/page). It can read sideways but not at angle. For more info you should contact Calera Systems. Sorry I can't find the info now but if someone needs it e-mail to me. Robert Belanger belanger@philmtl.philips.ca
kamemoto@spf.trw.com (Kenneth Kamemoto) (04/24/91)
Is there any OCR (optical character recognition) software available in the public domain that runs on SUN/UNIX/C? It should run on a Sun 3 under the SunOS 4.0.3 or 4.1.1 operating system. Thank you in advance. -- Kenneth I. Kamemoto -- Kenneth I. Kamemoto