Elliot Richmond wrote:
>
> A poster asked:
> >Can anyone help? We have recently had a new scanner installed at the
> >office. It is an HP ScanJet 6100C and the software is Omnipage Ltd
> >Edition.
>
> >My problem is that the software cannot recognise even the clearest
> >handwriting, which is unfortunate since I want to be able to scan in the
> >(hand-written) answers to a large number of open-ended questions from
> >about 700 questionnaires so that I can use NUDIST to analyse them.
>
> Sir:
>
> On the other hand, if you are joking, then, as the Aussies say, Good on
> you. You got me.
>
Oh, how I hope you are joking!
But if you are not, you have a couple of choices other than falling on
your sword. You might try dictating the written forms into
Dragon-System's Naturally Speaking. This is unspeakably tedious, but
perhaps better than typing them.
If you have graduate assistants, the twentieth century's equivalent of
indentured servants, perhaps they could do it. You can set up multiple
user files on some versions of Dragon, I understand.
If you *are* a graduate student, whimpering is called for.
Birrell Walsh
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