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Date:	Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:11:16 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: OCR (was Another eCS group buy for SCOUG members - last call)

In <20060129190702.79628.qmail@web81402.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, on 01/29/06
at 11:06 AM, J R FOX said:

>No -- I'm accustomed to making allowances for this, as
>I know that typing is not one of your strong suits.

My typing is fine. It's my proof-reading that's lazy. I type fast, don't
really watch the screen and, at times, neglect to check if what I typed
was what I thought.

>> in general Google ignores unquoted punctuation
>> characters.

>Such as the "/" in OS/2 ? (A mere technicality, but
>since when is that counted as punctuation ?)

Google is not your English teacher. :-)

See

http://www.google.com/help/basics.html

There used to be a list of ignoreed charactes in there somewhere, although
I would not be surprised if the list has changed. I always found this
feature annoying, so others might have too and Google might have changed
the rules. IAC, I developed the habit of quoting which automatically got
the results I wanted. I'll have to experiment a bit and see where the
quotes are still needed.

>Incidentally, that scanner pkg. I was trying to i.d.
>was from STI. At one time, I believe it was for HP
>scanners only, but apparently no longer.

Not AFAIK. It was a TWAIN package that supported a number of non-HP
scanners.

>There may
>have been an associated app. or two, but I don't know
>if this included OCR.

http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2000/scoug005.sti.html

Steven

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