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<h1>Re: ocr</h1>
<b>Jim Hatridge</b> (<a href="mailto:hatridge@straubing.baynet.de"><i>hatridge@straubing.baynet.de</i></a>)<br>
<i>Sun, 19 Jul 1998 22:31:23 +0000 (   )</i>
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On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Bob van der Poel wrote:<br>
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<i>&gt; Sorry, but I know this is completely on topic. Just don't know where</i><br>
<i>&gt; else to address it...</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; Anyone working on any OCR software? I've to occassional need and have</i><br>
<i>&gt; tried the program which came with my microtek scanner under win95. I</i><br>
<i>&gt; just spent most of the morning playing with it and the best I got</i><br>
<i>&gt; was a nice little windows message box with the useful message "twain</i><br>
<i>&gt; error".</i><br>
<i>&gt; I would have been much better off just typing the text in from the</i><br>
<i>&gt; start.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; Is OCR all that difficult to do?</i><br>
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Hi Bob,<br>
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IMHO just retype your text. I've messed around with OCR since about 1988<br>
and not once have I found a system worth a damn. <br>
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But about your twain error, check how much ram you have. I sometimes get<br>
this error when I run out of memory. <br>
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Hope this helps,<br>
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JIM<br>
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Jim Hatridge<br>
Germany <br>
<a href="mailto:hatridge@straubing.baynet.de">hatridge@straubing.baynet.de</a><br>
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