Hi Sarah There are lots of applications for it, as it's design for OCR from the ground up. I now have it and would be happy to do that review if required.
Kind regards <--- Gordon Smith ---> <[email protected]> Telephone: United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Mobile: +44 7907 823971 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 / +1 209 436 9443 Vic. Australia: +61 38 8205930 Vic. Australia +61 39 0284505 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Follow Us On Twitter: <http://twitter.com/maciosaccess> Skype: <skype:mac-access-dot-net?call> ------------------------------ On 9 Apr 2013, at 04:42, Sarah k Alawami <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds interesting but I guess I'm a bit ignorant. When would you need this? > like for reading lecture notes and hand outs? 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