Ot scanning software, was Re: FW: USA: Online book-sharing service for the blind borrows a page from Napster

[Gregory Nowak]

I didn't think that ocr could work with hand written stuff.
Greg


On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 07:27:42AM +0000, Toby Fisher wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Amanda Lee wrote:
> 
> > Still, if one has made an investment in one of these fine products which
> > are indeed designed for persons who are blind but also are way above
> > standard in terms of how they produce translation from print to text, as
> > long as that product is reliable and works well for the individual, ther
> > is no need really to dump one for the other as they are comparable in
> > quality.
> 
> I quite agree, each to his/her own.
> 
> For me, I use Omnipage, which came with my scanner.  Ok, it is not perfect
> and I do not use it for heavy scanning, but it does a nice job on my mail,
> some of which is hand-written and/or on coloured paper.  I'm using a
> relatively old version, 9.0, but it work fine for me.
> Btw, I only paid #60 GB (about $75) for my scanner.
> I suspect it wouldn't scan books too well, though I am going to try it
> because it may come in useful elsewhere for me.
> 
> Cheers.
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