From: anik@crhc.uiuc.edu (Sadun Anik)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish
Subject: Re: Kampanyanin durumu...
Date: 23 Aug 92 20:15:49 GMT
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing
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In-reply-to: trh@jack.sns.com's message of 23 Aug 92 15:49:00 GMT


  Bugun netde buldugum bir mesaj. Scanning ve OCR konusuyla ilgili oldugu
icin ilginizi cekebilir. Fax kartini scanner olarak kullanan ve de OCR
isini halleden yeni bir program. 

Sadun

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From: clarinews@clarinet.com (JOE FASBINDER)
Newsgroups: clari.tw.computers,clari.biz.features,clari.tw.electronics,clari.biz.products
Subject: From fax to file and back again
Keywords: computers, manufacturing, electronics,
	corporate products & services, corporate finance
	
 UPI Computer Comment
	
United Press International
	A new program from Intel Corp. that allows users of IBM-compatible
computers to receive faxes and turn then into text files that can be
edited could provide the budget-minded with a low-cost method for
converting other printed material.
	Turning printed pages into text -- whether a magazine or newspaper
article, a book, a contract or other any document -- usually involves
using a scanner and optical character recognition software.
	Doing it right -- with a full-page scanner and a high-accuracy OCR
program -- can cost big bucks. So a lot of people cut corners, settling
for hand scanners and modestly priced OCR software.
	But they often discover that it's more efficient to type the pages
into the computer than to scan them, run them through the OCR program
and edit out all the mistakes the program made in turning the scanned
images into letters. A long document will frequently have hundreds of
such mistakes.
	Print shops have powerful full-page scanners and high-end OCR
packages capable of turning printed documents into files that are 99
percent error free, but that's seldom possible at home.
	But if you have a fax board in your computer, you probably can get
the same kind of efficiency using a fax machine and Intel's new
FAXability Plus/OCR software for IBM compatibles.
	All you have to do is get someone to fax the documents you want to
decode to your computer.
	With the fax machine substituting for a scanner and some reasonably
clear copy faxed at the machine's fine resolution setting, you can often
get 99 percent character recognition for faxed documents.
	And FAXability Plus/OCR operates under Microsoft Windows. That means
your computer can receive a fax in background while you're doing
something else on your computer. You then push a couple of buttons to
send the fax into the OCR program.
	Then you can go back to what you were doing while the OCR software
converts the fax into a computer file that can be edited by any word-
processing program.
	The result is startlingly impressive if you're used to copy processed
with a hand scanner.
	Intel, based in Santa Clara, Calif., began shipping the FAXabilkity
Plus/OCR this month, so it probably will be selling at near its $249
suggested retail price for awhile. But if you have patience, you may be
able to pick it up for a lot less.
	FAXability Plus/OCR has a couple of glitches, of course. The original
program sent to me refused to connect with one particular machine.
	Intel's tech support people were able to download a software fix to
me because the fax board being used was a SatisFAXion model built by
Intel that allows such file transfers.
	The program will work with any send-receive faxmodem that is
compatible with Group III fax standards and virtually all faxmodems on
the market are.
	One of the nicer features of FAXability Plus/OCR is that on setup the
program allows you to designate the LPT3 parallel port address as a
faxmodem.
	Parallel ports are where you usually connect printers. LPT3 is the
address that designates a port where a spare printer or an external tape
drive would be hooked up. The basic programming of all computers has a
routine for sending data to the LPT3 parallel port even though most
computers don't actually have a port at that address.
	Designating the LPT3 port as a faxmodem allows FAXability to take
over the address. Whatever you send to the LPT3 address is turned into a
fax. Since FAXability runs under Windows, it uses the Windows Print
Manager to handle many of the faxing tasks.
	For example, if you're working on a document in Ventura for Windows
and suddenly decide Aunt Robin would like a peek, you simply tell the
program to print the document. A pop-up window asks you which printer it
should be printed to. Choose the one labeled FAXMODEM. Then you'll be
asked to fill in the blanks designating the name and phone number of the
recipient -- in this case, Aunt Robin.
	That done, the document is converted into a fax and sent to Aunt
Robin.
	In addition to document files, FAXability also can transmit faxes of
scanned files.
	If you have one of those rare scanners that uses the TWAIN
application programming interface, you can scan directly into the
FAXability Plus/OCR program.
	But all scanners can use their own software to scan files in the .pcx
format, and FAXability Plus/OCR will send them off as faxes.
	So will FAXability Plus. When you go shopping, you should be aware
that there are two very similar programs out there from Intel:
FAXability Plus and FAXability Plus/OCR. FAXability Plus is considerably
cheaper, but you can't use it to turn faxes into files.
	FAXability Plus/OCR software requires IBM-compatibles with at least 2
megabytes of system memory.

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Sadun Anik, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Center for Reliable and High-performance Computing
e-mail: anik@crhc.uiuc.edu
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