gm@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Greg McGary) (01/22/89)
Does anyone know of an optical scanner that can read phone-book pages
and turn them into text? How about something messy like Yellow-pages,
with mixtures of graphics and text of different sizes?
I'm not very interested in owning such a beast, since I'm certain it'll
cost too much. I'd rather pay for a service that will scan a hundred
or so pages and give me a floppy disk with the results.
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-- gm@cs.duke.edufyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) (01/24/89)
In article <13143@duke.cs.duke.edu>, gm@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Greg McGary) writes: > Does anyone know of an optical scanner that can read phone-book pages > and turn them into text? How about something messy like Yellow-pages, > with mixtures of graphics and text of different sizes? Here is an alternative: buy the info on mag tape from the phone company. I don't know what you expect the scanner to do with the graphics but if what you really want is just the name, address and phone, it is available. I looked into this for a project. Locally US West will let you select by various categories and they just charge you per name. -- Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155 (206)FOR-UNIX uw-beaver!tikal!ssc!fyl or uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl or attmail!ssc!fyl