Date : Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:47:41 +0100
From : C.J.Thornley@... (Chris Thornley)
Subject: The Micro User
>Diagrams are slightly more work as I manually adjust the contrast to get
the best results.
If you have calibrated your scanner with an ICC target and profile this
should not pose a problem.
Chris
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"Chris Thornley" wrote:
> You don't have to do all these stages. OCR is really advanced these
> days making this all very simple to do without all this tedious messing
around.
> Scanning, Layout and Prof reading built in. Preserving the layout or
> selected different types of finally layout. OCR has moved on from what
> it was in the past.
For OCRing it's just three stages: Scan, OCR, proofread. A computer can't
proofread, it doesn't know what it's supposed to say.
Yes OCR packages can scan and create a laid-out document, but *I* would
prefer to lay it out as I *know* how it's supposed to be laid out; I don't
want the mess that the OCR program thinks is the layout. Headings at 23.8
point, text at 13.86 point, columns of text arbitarily split and running
together, blemishes OCR'd into the letter O....
Diagrams are slightly more work as I manually adjust the contrast to get the
best results.
Listings are the hardest part by far. I can recreate the text of an article
in less than 20 minutes, but getting a working listing is a day's work.
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