Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!SXNAHM@bbng From: SXNAHM%bbng@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: OCR and Checks Message-ID: <1979@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Jun-83 10:40:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.1979 Posted: Thu Jun 9 10:40:00 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jun-83 21:22:10 EDT Lines: 18 I have also heard that some banks have discontinued returning checks, however my bank still does. Some that do not return the actual check return a facsimile of the check. Recognition Equipment shows one such system that uses a laser printer in the literature I received from them. This might still be usable for OCR input. Also, I would think that there will always be some conservative bankers somewhere who will return checks. If there is a move afoot to discontinue this practice *entirely* I would like to hear about it. In any case, OCR can be applied to more applications than the check reading example I used. If it can be done on your basic micro cheaply, I'm sure people will find ways to use this powerful input device. Steve