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From: "Steve Pattison" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "VIP-L" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 8:22 PM
Subject: Fwd: Math OCR


From: David Andrews [log in to unmask]
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  Dear All,

we  released  a beta version of our integrated OCR software "InftyOCR"
to recognize scientific documents including mathematical expressions.

  You can download a package files from our WEB site :

   http://infty.math.kyushu-u.ac.jp

It is usable free of charge, under the license agreements described in
the file "lecense_eng.txt" included in the package.

The  system  recognizes  only  carefully scanned binary page images in
either 400 DPI or 600 DPI. The image files have to be prepared in TIFF
Group-3  or  Group-4 (black and white) format. The source document has
to  be  clearly  printed. To get better recognition results, users are
recommended   to   erase   noises,  pictures  and  tables  before  the
recognition.

This  software  is released in the form of a plug-in of a mathematical
document  editor  called  "InftyEditor", another software developed in
our   Laboratory   and   sold   from  CAI  System  Corporation.  Using
InftyEditor,  you  can  edit  recognition results easily, and save the
results  as  LaTeX  files, HTML file, as well as in a form of a "Human
Readable TeX" format for visually impaired persons.

You  can  download  InftyEditor  also from the same web site mentioned
above, or from http://www.caisystem.co.jp/infty.

Looking forward to your kind reports on our software,

Best regards,
Masakazu Suzuki
Faculty of Mathematics
Kyushu University 36,
Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan.
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http://www.math.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~suzuki/

Regards Steve
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