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.
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