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For those of you who are now wondering if I've lost my. While Fred isn't really a captivating speaker, he does a pretty good job of pronouncing words and his memory requirement doesn't seem too bad. I wanted editable text so that I could scan the kids' stories from their readers into the Mac, change them to text, and let "Fred" read to them. With the arrival of a UMAX 1200S (yes, we recycle the included SCSI cards back to the high school's Windows brethren), the need for something more than the bundled limited edition OCR became apparent. It was one of those "a scanner or nothing" deals. The few times I really needed a scanner I was able to use one in a friend's office. I certainly didn't argue, even though there are probably 50 other things we need with a higher priority. That changed when someone at school thought the PTO really should get me a scanner for classroom use.
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Since that time, I've switched modem brands more than once and really haven't had much need for an OCR program. Although it crashed my Performa 575 as often as not, it was a marvelous tool when it worked. It was my first taste of the capabilities of optical character recognition (OCR) software.
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I still remember how thrilled I was when I finally got the OCR function of my Global Village fax/modem software to work occasionally. That's the position I find myself in with Caere's OmniPage Pro 8. Of course, if you haven't used the product, it seems new to you. A column about a product over 18 months old isn't exactly earth shattering news.