Evaluating the new OCR desktop programs; today's optical character recognition software can read print better, and cheaper, than ever. From: Folio: the Magazine for Magazine Management | Date: June 1, 1991| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1991 Copyright by Media Central Inc., A PRIMEDIA Company. All rights reserved. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Today's optical character recognition software can read print better, and cheaper, than ever

Optical character recognition (OCR) has come a long way since it could decipher only those funny-looking numbers the bank prints on your checks and the misshapen alphabets that went with them-called OCR A and OCR B.

Modern OCR equipment can read just about anything the human eye can read, except handwriting, and even that isn't far off: There's a prototype system in the Soviet Union, of all places, that can read handwritten script.

Like most other functions in publishing, OCR ...

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