good scanner for ocr

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i am looking for a good and fast scanner for ocr work, using Finereader 6
or 7
Any suggestion?

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.scanner (More info?)

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 05:09:08 GMT in alt.comp.periphs.scanner, "CSM1"
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>"Luca" <niente@spam.it> wrote in message
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>> i am looking for a good and fast scanner for ocr work, using Finereader 6
>> or 7
>> Any suggestion?
>>
>Any scanner that can scan at 300 to 600 dpi in B&W, Gray Scale and/or color
>and handle the paper size will do to produce a image that can be OCRed.
>
>Even the cheapest scanner you can buy will work for OCR.
>
>OCR software makes a huge difference in the results.
>Some OCR software does a very poor job.
>
>The best OCR software is only about 99% accurate.
The best OCR software is very expensive.
COTS retail OCR software packages are only about 90% accurate, a bit
more if straight commercial text, or legal or medical texts used with
specialized dictionaries, less in other technical areas, particularly
if a variety of punctuation, special characters, or symbols are
involved; better if continuously formed fixed width fonts, worse if
proportional fonts where letters intrude on each other, much worse
with small fonts, line printer, or dot matrix output.

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