> Sorry, but I know this is completely on topic. Just don't know where
> else to address it...
>
> Anyone working on any OCR software? I've to occassional need and have
> tried the program which came with my microtek scanner under win95. I
> just spent most of the morning playing with it and the best I got
> was a nice little windows message box with the useful message "twain
> error".
> I would have been much better off just typing the text in from the
> start.
>
> Is OCR all that difficult to do?
Hi Bob,
IMHO just retype your text. I've messed around with OCR since about 1988
and not once have I found a system worth a damn.
But about your twain error, check how much ram you have. I sometimes get
this error when I run out of memory.
Hope this helps,
JIM
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Jim Hatridge
Germany
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