Re: InWords

[jcitro@CWIS.UNOMAHA.EDU (Joe Citro)]

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> 
> I have a Quickie scanner and am thinking of buying InWords to scan text.
> Question: exactly how well does it work?  Say if you scanned a page of text
> about how much editing would one later have to do with a word processor to
> get perfect copy?  Thanks!
> -- 
> R Reames .............................................Maranatha!!
> 
  How much you have to edit depends on how well you "teach" Inwords how
  to interpret a particular type font.  I'm one of those guys who never
  really learned how to type, so I use my two fingers and peck away.  I
  bought Inwords to use with my scanner in order to save myself a lot of
  typing.  It works!  You have to spend some time teaching it but it's 
  worth it (IMHO). I've mentioned teaching a couple times.  What I mean
  bt that is-- if you have a type of text that you want to scan you have
  to scan it a few times and get the program to recognize the
  different characters.  If you have a particular type of text you use
  often (say, a text book) it would pay to get as much character
  recognition as you can.  Once you have taught recognition and saved
  the result, you never have to teach it that font again. The program
  comes with some sample fonts and they work well.
      
    The original program had some bugs in it (crashes on underlines) but
   they have supposedly fixed that. I just ordered my update last week.

    For me it works OK and I would recommend it, just be aware that
  you will have to spend some time with it to get it up to speed.


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