Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!glacier!jbn From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Optical Character Recognition Message-ID: <17744@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> Date: 28 Sep 88 02:55:49 GMT References:Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 9 Kurtzweil and Palantir both build special-purpose machines to do general multi-font character recognition. Their algorithms are proprietary. The Palantir unit is said to have about 300 MIPS of computational power inside. Doing this badly is easy. Doing it well is very, very hard. John Nagle