On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Davison, Lee wrote:
  My OCR  does fine at 150 dpi on nearly everything and
is much
 faster than working with 600 dpi source. The spellchecker gets
 most of the errors. It has to, I can't spell. 
That's what counts.
A good context sensitive OCR program should be able to operate at well
BELOW the source resolution -- it needs to differentiate the characters,
not necessarily see all features.  (for example: serifs)  And with good
enough context sensitivity, a lot of them can be interpolated even if not
recognizable.
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Is Outlook, etc. so incredibly porous that it's necessary to scan plain
text messages??
Are you the one whose system sends an automated response every time
somebody sends an infected attachment to the list?
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Grumpy Ol' Fred        cisin(a)xenosoft.com