wrote:
> Why don't you plan on doing enough to do a small
> SCOUG presentation, even
> if the app is a no-go for you. The OCR question
> comes up often enough.
I have a near-term need to scan a multi-page legal
document, and I don't want to do this at Kinkos.
(Confidential info, security issue. I don't know what
might remain on their hard drive . . . . )
Based on a quick search, I could find nothing
promising re an OS/2 port of Clara. I went over the
first 3 pages of Google hits. (It wasn't my friend,
this morning.) The claraocr.org site appears to
have been sold to someone for unrelated adverts. I
smack into that particular wall enough that it gets to
be quite annoying. Found a 9/05 reference to a GOCR
port by Paul Smedley at VOICE . . . but that wasn't
what you were thinking of, was it ?
If the Clara port is out there, but requires XFREE86,
or somesuch, I'd probably shine it on, and -- just out
of expedience and deadline -- visit the Dark Side.
Based on past experience, I wouldn't touch *anything*
from ScanSoft -- the Symantec of this s/w category --
but I did get a strong recommendation for a product
called Presto ! OCR a couple years ago. Costs a
c-note, but it would be deductible as a business
expense.
>> outfit that brokered a special buy
>> on some ThinkPad model, about a couple years back ?
> Any recall there might be is not in my short-term
> memory. :-)
It'll come to me. And maybe you'll say, 'Oh yeah,
THAT one.'
Jordan
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