OCR at work: how companies use optical character recognition to ease their work loads
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Four firms that successfully use optical character recognition (OCR) technology are Scientific American magazine (New York City), service bureau Advanced Computer Graphics (ACG, Boston, MA), on-line data base publisher Tax Analysts (Washington, DC) and newspaper Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD). OCR technology can save hours of manual text transcription and make projects possible that would otherwise be too labor-intensive and costly. Scientific American employs a low-cost OCR system consisting of an Apple Macintosh microcomputer, an Apple scanner and Caere's Omnipage OCR software to quickly produce multiple editions of the magazine plus collected reprints in book form without retyping every article. The magazine's VP of production and distribution Richard Sasso implemented the system and extols the virtues of OCR technology. Use of OCR systems at the other firms is briefly discussed.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1991
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Addimpact
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Gold Disk Inc's $149.95 AddImpact multimedia software is an easy-to-use animation program that may seem too silly at first for business use, but is actually a useful business tool. Users create files in a Microsoft Windows application that supports Object Linking and Embedding (OLE), such as CorelDraw, and AddImpact embeds animated graphics and sound into the files. The program uses object that resemble cartoon characters that participate in sequence. Users may make the sequences move in any direction or change size or orientation as they go. Users can add graphics to the background of their newly-created film or have it play on top of the currently-used application. The program comes with approximately 75 audio files that users can link to frames, and over 100 animated sequences. In addition, users can import other images into the Windows Clipboard.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1992
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A trace better: Corel Draw 1.21
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Corel Draw 1.21, $595 from Corel Systems Corp, is a medium-size upgrade that makes a five star program even better. Its main advantage is the way it permits artists, technical illustrators, and graphic designers to easily combine color graphics with kerned, stretched, rotated, and slanted text. It supports color output. This upgrade has four main improvements: compatibility with Windows 3.0 and its protected-mode memory usage; new file export and import filters; improved type outline import and export for the font transfer utility; and Corel Trace, a stand-alone bitmap-to-vector conversion program. Corel Trace automatically converts entire images and process batches of files in a range of file formats. This makes 1.21 a powerful production tool. This is a technically superior graphic design tool at a reasonable price.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1990
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