LT> I have been checking into optical charter readers .  Line, hand,
and
LT> page.  On Computer Chronicles they were talking about using these
items to
LT> enter text and pictures directly into a word processor.
LT> Will WP60B accept this type of input? Are there any special things to
do? Is
LT> the input accepted as ASCII text?  How is it processed before use.  Is
it
LT> worth the cost?
LT> I was thinking of this because I sometimes come across articles that I
wish
LT> to save and hate the idea of typing it in by hand.
     WP can, of course, take in your scanned image as a
graphic and handle it as such.  I sometimes use my
scanner -> WP graphic -> printer as a copy machine when
I just want one or two copies. It's slow, but faster
than driving to the nearest Xerox machine!
     OCR, however, needs OCR software to turn the text
into ASCII text, which WP can then handle.  I was
reading some time back about OCR software.  The article
said that the very best OCR software with perfect text
to copy and the best scanner has an accuracy of 99%.
That sounds terrific until you realize that you may
have 60-75 characters on a line, so you are going to
have a lot of errors, probably one or more to a line
with most materials.
     So, after bringing the text into WP, you need to
correct obvious errors, then run SPELLER, then run
Grammatik, then read it very carefully, then have
someone else proof-read it.  I really wanted it to read
in pages mostly of numbers which were in 5 pt messy
type - need I say it was less than useless!
                   The Bill White of Miami, FL
 * SLMR 2.1a * It would help if you would reduce your line width, please
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