Re: What has been scanned/captured?

[email@DELETE_THIS.luddite.no-ip.com (Simon Williams)]

Paul R. Santa-Maria <paulrsm@buckeye-express.com> wrote:

> The fundamental problem is that the scans are PICTURES of text and
> not text itself.  Converting a picture of text to text requires
> an OCR program and lots of time to proofread and edit the output.

This much is true... one possible solution to this (assuming the
document was important enough) would be for someone with possession of
the document to do the scanning/OCR and then farm out the proofreading.
Get a dozen folks going at an average sized book and you'd have it done
in two weekends without anyone breaking a sweat.

I know, I know... even Communism sounds good in theory ;-)

> We have many text viewers for the Apple II family.
> They are called "text editors" and "word processors".

Yes, but viewing HTML source code in Appleworks is just asking for a
migraine.

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