On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 15:27 -0800, Chris BONDE wrote: > Which forum? users, discuss.
I think users. > > I belong to an organization that has a small booklet printed with dot matrix > on > coloured paper 8.5 by 11. We need to set it up for a smaller paper size and > a better > printer. > > I have tried my new inexpensive scanner, Canon with OmniPage SE. However, > the > dot matrix leaves many of the tails off hence a 'y' becomes a ' v', 'p' an > 'o' etc. > Further the coloured paper and light print causes problems. But why use the > scanner when you have the disk you might ask. Well, if anyone can suggest > how I > can obtain info off a 5 1/4 disk with Apple works II e. Then maybe I can. > I think > that I might be able to resurrect the disc drive for 5 1/4 on windows based > machine > but the rest is something else. > > Any suggestions, please? > > Chris BONDE > > I would suggest that you try OCR. Here are some that are open source or free: http://jocr.sourceforge.net/download.html http://www.simpleocr.com/ http://www.xsane.org/xsane-win32.html (maybe) http://www.irislink.com/ps/uk/products/corporate/index.html (demo) I also found a couple on a French shareware site at one point but did not pursue them. -- Documentation Co-Lead PLEASE - keep list traffic on the list. Email sent directly to me may be ignored utterly. "Dinna meddle wi' things ye ken nuthin' aboot!" J.Herriot --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
