Re: Scanner/OCR Recommendations?

P. Timothy Ervin (ptervin@news1.yasuda-u.ac.jp)
Sat, 27 Jan 1996 12:26:01 +0900

N o s t a l g i a wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We are planning to build a corpus of Japanese college students' English
> writings, and we need to get some input from you as to the choice of the
> scanner and the OCR programs. Yes, we DO already have a scanner (Epson
> GT-6000) and an OCR software (MacReader v2.5) in our lab butwe are
> wondering if there are better ones out there that meet the following
> constraints:

I've been using OmniPage (up to Pro V.5) for several years now and
have been very happy. On a PowerMac the speed and accuracy is
outstanding. On the older machines it can be a little slow, but
the Caere company has done a very good job. The price is a little
high (in Japan I think it was \250,000), but it is still within
your price range.

We're close, I'll give you a demonstration if you want.

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