paper -> HTML (and The First PC)

On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Doug Yowza wrote: <...> I'm having the same trouble. I'm using TextBridge Classic (which is a lame way of saying "pared-down version"). It has lots of trouble just scanning the characters as it sees them on the page and putting them in a text file. Instead, it tries to make some wacky sense out of columnar text in a page and turns ASCII art graphics into garbage, throwing text sections all over the place. It doesn't like the zeroes in my Apple Pascal Operating System Manual. It inserts tabs where it should just put spaces. I don't see any options anywhere to fix these problems. I'm also having trouble getting a clean scan of a black text on white type-written page. I'm doing it at 300dpi and the page comes out looking like shit on the computer. There are all sorts of spots and blotches everywhere that are clearly not on the original, and the glass of the scanner is crystal clear. I don't see an easy way of cleaning the page up with the software I'm using (PaintShop Pro 3.0, I just downloaded 4.12 but am still getting used to it). There was a discussion a short while ago on the techniques people were using to successfully scan in docs. I wish I'd saved that. The OCR is OK when the text is just normal, and does remarkably well. But I need an OCR suite smarter than Xerox's TextBridge Classic. I also need some good post-processing software, or at least need to know how to scan a simple black & white document without the scanner introducing blotches and crap. Any suggestions? Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Always being hassled by the man. Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0 See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details! [Last web site update: 12/07/98]