"Greg Mayman" wrote to "Mike Ross" (15 Dec 02  08:59:00)
 --- on the topic of "TALKING BOOKS"

 GM> I believe that there are some Windoze programs around in the last
 GM> few years that can convert scanned images of text into true text,
 GM> even programs that convert images of hand-written text!

 GM> But IMO it's still a pretty good trick to be able to do it with a
 GM> reasonably small number of errors.

The early scanner ocr was hard to use if the font was not already known.
Then it made a lot of errors that had to be fixed manually and spend
some time with it to "learn" the font. OTOH a Palm-pilot does recognize
scribbled block letters but one has to adapt the way a few letters are
scribed. My old one doesn't do cursive but I think newer ones do. In any
case ocr is a lot better now but I still haven't found one that does
manuscript sheet music yet! 

 Mike
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