Re: Place to find old code????

["Mirko" <mirko@yack.com>]

> There's no need to type in those scans.  Instead, run them through some
> suitable OCR software!
>
> Nowadays, printed paper, and scans of printed paper, is a machine
> readable medium.  Of course this includes the original magazines -- they
> can be scanned and OCR'ed.
>
> True, OCR'ing magazine prints won't produce a 100% accurate result, so
> some manual proofreading is necessary.  But from my own experience,
> scanning, OCR'ing and proofreading is some 5 to 10 times faster than
> typing in it all manually + proofreading what you typed.  And errors in
> OCR'ing tend to be quite predictable; after a while you get to know your
> OCR software and where it is most likely to fail.  Common errors are
> confusing 0 and O, 1 and l, 3 and 8, etc.
>

OCR software for the Apple II ? Oh my.... should have megs of ram loaded 
in...
Never heard of, anyone knows any OCR for the II ? maybe IIGS but surely 
never heard of a IIe or ][ OCR software.

My oldest remembering of an OCR is omnipage, late in the 1987 it was ok on 
the Mac but not on Apple II

Mirko