RE: TECO.DOC

[Ed Tecot <tecot@cs.stanford.edu>]

On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 3:19 PM, Bob & Cecelia <mailto:n3lym@amsat.org> wrote:
>I have tried some OCRing and had various degrees of sucess depending on
the 
>font and quality of the original. Most of the Delta docs were formatted 
>monospaced ASCII and I have yet to figure out a good way to get the OCR 
>software to reproduce this style of formatting (e.g. the right number of 
>spaces or tabs). I'm using Xerox "non-deluxe" version of something that
came 
>with a scanner. Also have "access" to an Adobe OCR product, but have not
yet 
>liberated it to my system. Anybody have any recommendations?

I gave OmniPage LE on a Mac a shot at TECO.DOC and it failed in all of the
ways you described.  Not to mention that it consistently got certain
characters wrong, despite being told that it was dot matrix.

_emt