Strength of character recognition: 10 programs that take the drudgery out of digitizing the printed word
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A review of five optical character recognition (OCR) programs for the Macintosh microcomputer and five for IBM PC-compatible microcomputers focuses on the factors that improve recognition rates with any package. The programs work with many scanners, recognize a wide variety of fonts and formatting, and recognize words at rates ranging up to 541 words per minute depending on the package and source material. There will be errors and other clean up work to be done on OCR output. These can be minimized by scanning text files at the highest resolution, correct setting of brightness controls, use of word processing programs to identify unrecognized characters on scanned documents, and setting the word processing program to show superfluous formatting codes. No one program provides all desired features, but Omnipage and AccuText provide fast, accurate recognition for most document sources.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1991
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Gallery: 'Scape: gigabytes of color
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'Scape, a new, large and glossy Southern California real estate and style magazine, is produced all electronically. The magazine is near tabloid size, has over 200 pages in multiple sizes and uses color photography throughout. The editing, design and production departments produce the entire magazine on Macintosh computers, sending text, graphics and four-color photographs directly to film. Software used includes Adobe Illustrator 88, Photoshop, Aldus FreeHand, and QuarkXPress 3.0 for trapping. Each photographic page file could be as large 70Mbytes, so high-capacity SyQuest drives were used for in-house page scans, with erasable optical media employed for shipping 'Scape page files to a service bureau for transfer to film. Additional details of the production of 'Scape are discussed.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1991
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1990 readers' choice awards; Publish readers choose their favorite hardware and software
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The Publish 1990 Readers' Choice Awards includes Mac and MS-DOS products in 18 categories, such as multimedia and books. In the page layout area, Aldus PageMaker won at 46 percent, with Ventura Publisher second with 29 percent. In wordprocessing, WordPerfect won at 49 percent, and Microsoft Corp's Word ranked 19 percent. Autodesk Inc's Autodesk Animator won in the multimedia category at 17 percent, with Aldus Corp's PageMaker ranking at 11 percent. Corel Systems' Corel DRAW won in the drawing category at 68 percent, and Micrografx Inc's Micrografx Designer ranking second at 9 percent. The 100 winning products were chosen from Publish readers' favorite software and hardware products.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1990
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