src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) (03/22/91)
the subject pretty much says it. details: i want to
- send text (perhaps graphics) files as faxes
- receive faxes and then OCR(*) them
- scan documents, then fax them and/or OCR them
- print received faxes
on 80[34]86 machines with ISA or EISA bus under Interactive UNIX 2.2.1
(with X Windows, probably needed for OCR'ing?).
the main problem is the OCR software. there are zillions of OCR
packages for DOS, but i haven't seen one for UNIX yet. i
ran around on CeBIT faire and asked on every booth even
resembling like they might have to do something with scanner,
but got always the same result :-(
i've directed followups to comp.dcom.fax, however i'd prefer
email so i can summarize more easily.
thanks!
(*) Optical Character Recognition
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