10 Mar
2006
10 Mar
'06
2:31 p.m.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith J. Schultz" <schultzk@uni-trier.de>
Interesting is also, I had a Apple Newton and it recognized my handwriting with 98-99% accuracy. Yet, most OCR systems today will fail!! They can not be trained! I still have to find a system today with similar performance. So much for technological break throughs.
Not to disagree with your main points, which I agree with, but I thought I'd point out that most major OCR packages still allowing training (I'm most familiar with FineReader), but they do tend to bury deep so that you have to hunt to find out how to do it (we have people who do it regular at DP for some of the more ... creative ... fonts we find sometimes in old texts). Josh