best OCR scanner??
Gary Kline
kline at tao.thought.org
Fri Sep 2 00:46:34 PDT 2005
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 08:07:26PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> People,
>
> I want to scan ~400 pp of an out-of-print and out-of-copyright
> book (from 1913) and need to know what the best scanner is
> and if there has been substantial improvement in OCR
> software in recent years. This book has few footnotes
> or different typefaces, so it should make things easier.
>
> Oh, an if there is something that plugs into DOS/DOZE
> and just works, super. I'lll use my W2K box. (Hopefully,
> something that plugs into COM0 or COM1. USB okay too.)
>
> thanks for any clues; I've never used a scanner before!
> --yea, no kidding:-)
>
... just a postscript here to the list: my
interest in the "best scanner" obviously applies to
the Unix realm, too. Just FWIW.
gary
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