I have a copy of Abbey Fine Reader Pro which I got free on a magazine
many years ago.
If it reads a character incorrectly you can add to the image <=>
character map so it can adapt for example to a damaged slug on a line
printer train or other type element.
Its not 100% but I used it to scan the IBM1130 CSMP from the manual....
Dave
On 28/11/2025 14:57, Guy Fedorkow via cctalk wrote:
Greetings Restorers,
I think a number of us have wanted to restore software that's only
available as a scanned listing from a line printer. The original
printout probably wasn't the best typographic quality, and scanning
doesn't improve it.
As a first pass, OCR with tools like Adobe Acrobat can easily
produce a rough draft of the content in text form, but it takes almost
as much work to correct the many "typos" as it does to simply re-type
the listing.
It seems like, with all this high-tech AI processing around, it
should be possible to take advantage of the limited character set,
fixed fonts, and restricted grammar that one might find in a listing
to resolve more of the ambiguities in character recognition.
Does anyone have an approach that's more efficient than generic OCR
and a long process of correcting typos on every line of code or comment?
Thanks
/guy
