On Mar 9, 12:32, Stephen Dauphin wrote:
> I'd like to second this notion. Could those on this list, who are
> scanning for posterity, share their methods?
>
> What platform(s), what hardware(s), what software(s). Any intermediary
> format(s), final output format(s). Whatever it takes.
I, too, would appreciate thoughts on software/platform.
> [I note Jim Stricklan's reply came in while writing this. I have scanned
> down to newspaper legal notice size. Is this 6 point? It OCRed virtually
> identically at 200 or 300 dpi and the results were high 90%]
That's not what I'd call "high". That means that on average, you have to
correct or interpret every tenth character. I'd call less than 99% "low",
not high. Our Department looked at this a few years ago, and rejected
anything less than 95%, I think. Even that means correcting (or as one
person put it, "clicking on") one character in every twenty.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Tue Mar 09 1999 - 12:14:19 GMT