ChattyCathy wrote:
> 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.
I don't know about Wayne but the first version of OmniPage Pro that I
had came with a dongle. Looking back I thought it was good, and for its
time it was, but nothing to compare with the OCR software out today.

IIRC I was using it on an IBM 486, may have been the 386. Know it wasn't
the XT or the Osborne One. LOL