Re: [MATHEDCC] Re: Student Motivator--Scanners and Text Editors

GYanos@UIC.EDU
Thu, 10 Jul 1997 09:38:18 CST

Addressed to: John Chamberlain <chamber@CORD.ORG>
mathedcc@archives.math.utk.edu

** Reply to note from John Chamberlain <chamber@CORD.ORG> Thu, 10 Jul 1997 08:18:50 -0500

> >...my question is: After a frame or a page is "scanned
> >in", how do you edit it? How, for example, do you enlarge
> >the text...?
>
> IMHO, for sharing printed material, a photocopy enlargement works best and
> easiest, transferred onto an overhead transparency film. But if you insist
> on scanning...

If you are scanning the text, why not read it with an OCR program and
then do what you like with it? Clean newspaper print seems to be very
easy for the OCR software, usually getting the text close enough to
perfect that only a spell check is necessary to complete the job.

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