Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwvax!shorty!thaler From: thaler@shorty.CS.WISC.EDU (Maurice Thaler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: OCR software info request Summary: Check out Omnipage386 Message-ID: <8583@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 27 Sep 89 16:19:06 GMT References: <488@oetl1.oetl.UUCP> <532@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu Reply-To: thaler@shorty.cs.wisc.edu (Maurice Thaler) Distribution: usa Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 15 I checked out Omnipage 386 recently wan was very impressed. I scanned a page from a manual (STFM) and it was 100% accurate. I had less wonderful results from my nasty test where I scanned from a magazine which had a screen behind the letters. Even that did better than I expected. It did not like dot-matrix however. I understand there is some new software coming out called (I think) ReadRight2 which is supposed to handle dot matrix as well. One thing that impressed me about omnipage was the way it looked at a page of columnated text and figured out the order of the text automatically. It was correct in its assumptions. Omnipage could output to many formats including WordPerfect 5.0 and it automatically included bolding, italics etc. Very nice. Maurice Thaler SYSOP Audio Projects BBS (608) 836-9473 SYSOP Power Board BBS (608) 222-8842