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Re: RE: OmniPage 11 and Epson scanners

At 14:41 28/6/01 -0700, Shawn Redford wrote:
>If anyone knows of a scanning utility that would split apart opposing book
>pages which could then be fed into an OCR engine, I would love to know

 The free ImageMagick [sic] "convert" utility allows arbitrary
cropping, rotation, and trimming to plate.  As it can be invoked
from a DOS (or Unix) command line, it's straightforward to write
a Perl utility that does what you want.  Naturally, a bit of trial-and-
error is required to determine the correct borders.

  Does anybody happen to know of a DOS command-line
deskewer?   Or, failing this, can anybody tell me if OmniPage 11
fixes the following OmniPage 10 bug:  if you try to use OP10 as a
deskewer by opening,  and then "sav(ing) as image" a whole lotta
files, OP10  does not always assign names to the saved files in
proper order (thus, files 1, 2, 3 might be saved as s1, s3, s2, which
means that the original names can't be recovered automatically).

  Be well,
  Doug Cooper
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