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From: valo@cvtstu.cvt.stuba.cs (Valo Roman)
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Subject: Re: Text Recognition software availability
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 05:31:39 GMT
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ReplyTo: valo@cvtstu.cvt.stuba.cs (Valo Roman)

In article <C4IHqM.7v3@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B) writes:
|> One more time: is there any >free< OCR software out there?
|>
|> I ask this question periodically and haven't found anything.  This is
|> the last time.  If I don't find anything, I'm going to write some
|> myself.
|> 
|> Post here or email me if you have any leads or suggestions, else just
|> sit back and wait for me. :)
|> 
|> ab

I'm not sure if this is free or shareware, but you can try to look to wsmrsimtel20.army.mil,
directory PD1:<MSDOS.DESKPUB>  file OCR104.ZIP .
From the file SIMIBM.LST :
OCR104.ZIP    B   93310  910424  Optical character recognition for scanners.

Hope this helps.

Roman Valo                                                          valo@cvt.stuba.cs
Slovak Technical University
Bratislava 
Slovakia
