[1] From: Wilhelm Ott <Wilhelm.Ott@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de> (24)
Subject: Re: 9.651 / OCR
[2] From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it (6)
Subject: Re: 9.655 OCR software
[3] From: EditorAnn@aol.com (8)
Subject: Re: 9.651 the state of OCR?
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 09:24:38 +0100 (MEZ)
From: Wilhelm Ott <Wilhelm.Ott@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: Re: 9.651 / OCR
At the Computing Center of the University of Tuebingen, we provide
OCR service based on four different systems:
Omnipage Pro 6.0
Textbridge 3.02
ScanWorx
Optopus
The first choice of our users is Omnipage Pro for "normal" OCR tasks.
Textbridge is used less frequently; clear advantages over Omnipage Pro
have not been reported to us.
For documents with less good print quality, we have made the experience
that ScanWorx normally yields better results.
The old (we still use the pre-Windows version) Optopus system is still
in use for texts with non-latin fonts.
In 9.655, Jean Anderson asked "what happened to Optopus".
Optopus (manufactured by Makrolog, von-Leyden-Strasse 46,
D-65191 Wiesbaden) is still available for Windows 3.x; presently
they are trying to adapt it for Windows 95 (there, the scanner drivers
seem to provide some problems). For further information, you may
check http://www.makrolog.com
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Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Ott phone: +49-7071-292933
Universitaet Tuebingen fax: +49-7071-295912
Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung e-mail: ott@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de
Brunnenstrasse 27
D-72074 Tuebingen
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 11:36:50 +0000 (GMT)
From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it
Subject: Re: 9.655 OCR software
In my experience Optopus is the only package which
gives good results for non-latin characters.
Only, I do not know whether it is still supported, as
I acquired one copy when it was being "translated" from
German to English (the manual etc., I mean), and nobody
cared to contact me later.
Tito Orlandi, Rome
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 17:40:14 -0500
From: EditorAnn@aol.com
Subject: Re: 9.651 the state of OCR?
Re OCR software. OmniPagePro vs. TypeReader. I'm very curious because I
have to upgrade to one or the other quite soon. My criterion is simple: I
want the program most able to 'read' the widest variety of fonts in English.
(For a real nightmare, try scanning 50 year old French sociology protocols
produced on a manual typewriter.) I asked the editor of MacUser at last
year's Expo when we might expect a lab comparison of OCR programs (the last
was light years ago, actually 1993); "Ah yes, we really should do that" told
me it would be quite a while. Thank you for any help that can be given.