I used the imac 400 Mhz and the agfa snapscan I have at work. The OCR program I used was Omnipage pro 8.0.
The result was a mess. A total mess. The text files omnipage pro 8.0 produced were totally worthless.
I wondered what the problem was.. Maybe the scanner had a problem with the kind of paper the text was on. I didn't know.
I took the text home to type it over by hand. At home I decided to give the OCR one more try. This time with my IIci running system 6, my black and white apple scanner and omnipage 3.
To my surprise: It worked! The vintage computer, the vintage scanner and that vintage version of omnipage produced a piece of text that was very usable.
Really remarkable.... Very surprising was also that IIci wasn't that much slower than the iMac in recognizing the text.
Marten -- Vintage Macs list nanny
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