My Reply follows quote. On 18/08/2003 14:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >I don't use OCR programs often, but today I needed to OCR three pages. >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 ----------- In fiddling around with OCR, I have found that you get bad results by scanning at higher resolutions. With the "built in" OCR software that came with my old Umax Astra 600S, using black and white document setting and 300DPI, I can get nearly 99% accuracy.
One key is to make sure the lines of text are straight on the scanner bed. I suppose the older scanners scanned in a lower resolution than the "default" of newer machines. Still, nice to know that some of the older stuff is better "by default" than fancy-schmancy gee-whiz stuff! Ken -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
