ap@deimos.caltech.edu (Alain Picard) (10/08/90)
I would like to know if anyone has experience with scanners and character recognition software, in particular the inexpensive had scanner ScanMan by Logitech. I am not very intersted in scanning pictures; I want to scan abstracts of papers and so on and put them in a database, so it needs to be good at character recognition. I have seen OmniPage work on a Macintosh IIci, and It took about 3 minutes to do the text recognition (with a full page scanner, however). Can anyone tell me how well the Logitech system works? 85% accuracy? 99% ? Does it take less that 5 min per page, say, on a 16Mhz 386SX system ? Otherwise, what is the cheapest decent system that I can get, if hand-held scanners are inadequate? Alain Picard E-mail or posting is fine. Thanks!
mjlanham@eos.ncsu.edu (MICHAEL JAY LANHAM) (10/10/90)
I recall reading a review of Catchword(tm) from Logitech in PC Magazine (?) that is specifucally designed to be used with Scanman. The article gave the program outstanding reviews. I think it had teach character font recognition and a few other bells and whistles. I do not recall seeing a time factor presented within the article. I do know the program costs around $150 not counting to $200 or so for the scanner. I have used the Scanman but only for line art. For that I can say that it is very good a capture black and white line art--as for text I don't know. Best of luck.