Ed Nelson wrote:

> I'm newly giving shelter to a new Epson All-in-One printer/scanner/copier.  I'm told I can use it to scan printed text into memory in an editable, formatable form, which I find is attractive, at least in concept.  But no OCR program is included, so far as I can tell.
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> Can the PCSoft community of helpers suggest something pretty good, maybe on the order of TextGridge Pro or OmniPage Pro?  (I understand both of them to be pretty costly, which I find ominous, but might there be available pretty good "clones"?  Or good but low-cost outdated editions/versions.  You'll see how it is that I don't want to release a nickle unless the becomes a serious threat.
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> I'll certainly appreciate any ideas!             ---ed
You might try ABBY Fine Reader.  It came with my Epson All-in-One.
Wanda Irby in Seymour in the great State of Texas, USA!

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