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From: Sam Cline <>
Subject: Re: questions about scanner
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 21:23:02 -0500


Randy,

You might try setting your scan at 300dpi, if you haven't tried that
already.

I use Text Bridge by Xerox and it seems to work well, after I figured
out how to use it. My first attempt ended up with the weather report in
the middle of an obituary.

Sam

Fred Finkbiner wrote:
>
> Randy,
> Your problem may be in your OCR software,if you are using the one that
> came with your scanner it may not be very good.I use Text-Bridge and it
> seems to read newspaper print OK,it will miss a few words but they all do
> that.
>
> Later.........Fred
>
> ===========================
>
> At 08:05 PM 2/18/98 -0800, you wrote:
> >I just purchased a Leo Plus 3 scanner yesterday and I am having trouble
> >understanding how I can copy a page in it, like an obituary and then be
> >able to copy, cut and paste the copy from the image to a website to make
> >it a little easier and time saving. I understand how to scan but when I
> >do the end result of a typed page is somewhat garbled. You can pick out
> >words but some letters are incorrect or missing. Any thoughts on what
> >could be wrong?
> >
> >Randy Klemme
> >Franklin County
> >
> >
> >

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