Message-Id: <mailto:199507102009.PAA09457@library.wustl.edu> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 16:06:55 -0400 From: Bob Rosenberg <mailto:rarosenb@GANDALF.RUTGERS.EDU> Subject: OCR and fonts To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
I'm trying to find OCR software that likes Times Roman (or related serif fonts). The software I first tried, which is three or four years old, loves the sans-serif font in one of our publications, but it just gags on the font we have used in our book edition, which is in two sizes. The software particularly dislikes the almost-9pt font size in our footnotes. I believe it automatically scans text at 300 dpi, which leads me to place the blame on the software's recognition capability, since it ought to be able to read 9-pt type at that resolution. Has anyone found a package that reads a standard serif font without difficulty? The software also brings superscripts down into the line and has a few other format problems, but I have laid that problem to age and am hoping that newer software will preserve format better. (I know that is the boast of the new Xerox OCR product.)Thanks.
Bob Rosenberg
Robert Rosenberg Thomas Edison Papers Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08903 mailto:rarosenb@gandalf.rutgers.edu