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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
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Organization: Stanford University
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     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