on 8/18/03 15:39, Marten van de Kraats at [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled: > I don't use OCR programs often, but today I needed to OCR three pages. > I used the imac 400 Mhz and the agfa snapscan I have at work. The OCR > program I used was Omnipage pro 8.0. > The result was a mess. A total mess. The text files omnipage pro 8.0 > produced were totally worthless. > I wondered what the problem was.. Maybe the scanner had a problem > with the kind of paper the text was on. I didn't know. > I took the text home to type it over by hand. At home I decided to > give the OCR one more try. This time with my IIci running system 6, > my black and white apple scanner and omnipage 3. > To my surprise: It worked! The vintage computer, the vintage scanner > and that vintage version of omnipage produced a piece of text that > was very usable. > Really remarkable.... Very surprising was also that IIci wasn't that > much slower than the iMac in recognizing the text.
I have also found that the vintage macs are worth their weight in gold for certain task, like the one that you mention. Glad that omnipage 3 works for you! I have vintage macs as email servers, dns, and incoming fax machines. And they do it every bit as well as a G5 could, if not better. Now, the fact that I paid over $9,000 for my IIfx when it was brand new is another story... -- Paul/. 95 black 3000GT VR-4 98 VFR800F, TBR aluminum hi exit formerly reasonable and prudent -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
