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Technology Stocks : Visioneer (VSNR): Does anybody know what's going on? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sam Citron who wrote (1267)	2/28/1998 8:17:00 PM
From: Investor2	Respond to of 1763

RE: "Has anyone found any other OCR software that really improves the error rate with serif fonts?" Good (accurate) OCR software does not exist, in my opinion. Best wishes, I2

To: Sam Citron who wrote (1267)	3/1/1998 8:11:00 AM
From: Linch	Respond to of 1763

Sam, the scanner light not going off was one of the main complaints that visioneer was receiving about it new line of flatbed scanners (I was told this by one of their tech people). Anyway, they have a free patch on their websight that will correct that problem. visioneer.com

To: Sam Citron who wrote (1267)	3/2/1998 2:19:00 PM
From: jlib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1763

>"Has anyone found any other OCR software that really improves the error rate with serif fonts?"< There doesn't seem to be much difference between the consumer OCR products on clean input. I have Xerox Textbridge Pro, Omnipage Pro, and Ligature Character Eyes. OmniPage has the best interface so I have used that the most. They all work OK if the input is pristine. Where they all stumble badly is on newspaper articles. The new Visioneer ProOCR100 program I saw is significantly better at newspaper recognition than any of the others I have tried. That combined with a very good maintaining of format in the output, extreme ease of use, and a price less than half that of the others makes for a good addition to the Visioneer line. And there wasn't much R&D spent on it. It is kind of like the flatbeds; just a repackaged pre-existing product. Jimmy Liberato