[11814] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Re: digitalization times
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clinton Jones)
Thu Nov 13 20:02:16 1997
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 15:56:41 -0600
From: Clinton Jones <clinton_jones@nugsa.org.za>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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I have reworked a number of papers in exactly the way you have described,
essentially the problems can be obviated by the use of a good HTML
publishing wordprocessor that can handle a twain compatible device.
Where problems arise are with manually having to check the accuracy of
the OCR and then the actual formatting in a presentable way, of the images.
I estimate that you will need an above average scanner to do it quickly . I
used a genius flatbed 2400dpi and it took about 30 minutes a page from
start to finish scanning OCRing and image embedding. Not for the faint
hearted...
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