OCR advice for Mac and IBM

[N20JACK at AOL.COM]

In Germany at the Marshall Center for the IBM I used the program
"Fine Reader" to scan and convert about 4000 pages of text. It worked like a
charm and if you have an automatic document feeder it will scan and recognize
the pages on its own. You can start the program and come back the next
morning and everything is done. The accuracy was very high. Their URL is
(http://www.abbyy.com/).

For the Macintosh there is a program called "MacTiger" which works equally
well. It also will work with automatic document feeders. You can save in
various formats such as Microsoft Word and other popular formats. It can be
purchased from a company in LA called Smartlink, Smart Link (800) 256 4814
or info at smartlinkcorp.com.

To save your files in various codepages such as KOI-8, you can use shareware
programs such as Paperno's Cyrillic Central for Windows. On the Mac side
there are other programs and shareware utilities to help you convert texts.
These can be purchased from Smartlink as well.

Hope this helps.

Jack Franke
Defense Language Institute

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