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Default OCR software (was: A modest proposal)

Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
> OCR software has come a long way from those days. I remember OmniPage
> Pro
> and is was a really good product in its day. Another improvement is
> the recognition of many different standard fonts.
>

Did the version of OmniPage Pro you had come with a dongle that had to
be plugged into the parallel port in order to get it do anything at
all? Mine first version did (we had IBM boxes way back then). What a
PITA.
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