[Coco] Rainbow on Disc - OCR

[Neil Morrison]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Wayne Harwood" <michael at musicheadproductions.org>


> Here are some thoughts and questions I have in regards to the OCR subject.
>
> It seems there are several ways to go with the OCR, but two main
> categories.  Category one would be OCR included in the PDF as selectible
> and searchble text, while category two is including separate files that
> would include the text from the issue.
>
> In regards to category one:
> If provided with 300ppi 24bit color images would they suffice for the OCR
> work?  If provided with 300ppi 1bit B&W images for the OCR, could we use
> 300ppi 24bit color images as the "background" for the PDF - if so how easy
> is it with ABBYY?

Use color, grey scale or line art as appropriate for ABBYY. 300 dpi is fine
unless there is a lot of tiny text on the page which you want to search.

> In regards to category two:
> We would want a system for searching that is cross platform.  I would
> think that we would want to separate program listings, and perhaps
> individual articles, into separate files.

Whatever works as PDF will be fine. Adobe Reader is available for these:-

HP-UX
IBM AIX
Linux (.rpm)
Linux (.tar.gz)
Mac68K_.bin
Mac68K_.hqx
MacOS 10.2.2-10.2.7
MacOS 10.2.8-10.3
MacOS 7.5.3
MacOS 8.1-8.5
MacOS 8.6-9.0
MacOS 9.1-10.2.1
OS/2 Warp
Palm OS (Macintosh)
Palm OS (Windows)
Pocket PC
Sun Solaris SPARC
Symbian OS
Windows 2000
Windows 2000 SP1
Windows 2000 SP2
Windows 2000 SP3
Windows 2000 SP4
Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 98SE
Windows ME
Windows NT
Windows XP

Also I note:-

Use Adobe Reader for Palm OS® to view PDF files on your Palm OS device.

Use Adobe Reader for Pocket PC to view PDF files on your Pocket PC device.

Use Adobe Reader for Symbian OST to view PDF files on your Nokia
Communicator 9500 devices.

Seems enough. Whatever it's faults, it's as multi platform as one is likely
to see.

Neil