GAM@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (11/16/88)
======================================================================== 11 I heard there is a MAC scanner which uses a program called OMNI for optical character recognition. Has anyone seen a demonstration? Is there one available for the IBM PC? Is there another list available I should subscribe to related to scanning in general? Any information would be appreciated, thanks. If there is a bulletin board which discusses this already please send Electronic Mail to: Gregory A. Mouning User Services Consultant BITNET address: GAM@YALEVM.BITNET ARPANET address: GAM@YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU UUNET address: GAM%YALEVM.BITNET@UUNET.UU.NET
ba@pbhyg.PacBell.COM (3333 25th St. #800) (11/17/88)
In article <105@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> GAM@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu writes: >======================================================================== 11 > >I heard there is a MAC scanner which uses a program called OMNI for optical >character recognition. Has anyone seen a demonstration? Is there one >available for the IBM PC? Is there another list available I should subscribe ^^^^^^^ Yes, there is such program available for HP SCANJET. The name skips my mind, but I am sure anywhere you lookup a scanjet, they should point out the available OCR as well as Graphic packages that you may use with HP Scanjet. The graphic scanner, by the way, scans at a resolution of 300 x 300 and producessome impressive images. The image we scanned was a color photograph of a group of 50 people. You could pretty much recognize the faces in the black and white print of the scanned image. (It took 3+ minutes to print!, and the storage requirements are substantial, can go up to 3 meg per image). With the OCR, you're able to scan a letter, statement, etc. and then modify the scanned text with any word processor. Depending on the clarity and crispness of the original text, you may reach 100% accuracy through OCR. -- Behzad Alavi +-----------------------------------+ pacbell!pbhyg!ba | | (415) 550-2528 | | v1r2 |___________________________________| DISCLAIMER: no room left
alans@spked.UUCP (Alan Smith of IM) (11/18/88)
Yes , there's an OCR program for the Apple Scanner called
OmniPage. It's by a company called Caere Corp. I don't have their
number handy here but they advertise in all the Mac Tabloids and
magazines.
Hope this helps.
PS They're also working on a version for MS-DOS machines that'll
work with the HP Scanjet scanner.
bye ... .. .
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