Mis-ing characters: Omnipage

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Caere's $795 optical character recognition (OCR) program for the Mac, Omnipage, recognizes typeset or laser-printed text, including graphics, multiple columns, typefaces and point sizes. Omnipage performs well with simple documents, but accuracy is poor when complex documents are scanned. As many as 66 errors were found when Omnipage was used on an 800-word laser-printed page, although only 9 errors occurred when a 544-word typeset page was scanned. Benchmark tests run on Omnipage showed Omnipage's average speed from the beginning of a scan to screen display was 205 words per minute. Omnipage requires a 4Mbyte Mac II or a 4Mbyte Mac SE with an accelerator board, 20Mbytes of hard disk space and an Apple Scanner or a Hewlett-Packard Scanjet. A total system cost of more than $10,000 detracts from the program's value. Kurzweil's Discover system is noted as a better alternative.

Equipment and supplies, Software Packages, Character Recognition, Optical Document Readers, Apple Macintosh (680X0-based system), Caere Corp., OmniPage (OCR software)

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Presentations with panache: Wingz

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Wingz, Informix software's $399 spreadsheet program, has flexible presentation features and superb calculating capabilities. The program allows you mix tables, charts, three-dimensional color graphs, text and graphics on the same page. Wingz has 20 different types of charts; placing, editing and formatting of charts can be accomplished anywhere on the worksheet. Hyperscript, similar to HyperCard's HyperTalk, can be used to create outstanding on-screen presentations where you can branch off to accompanying charts and files. Lotus 1-2-3 WKS files are the only spreadsheet files that can be directly imported or exported, because Wingz remains unable to translate Excel's proprietary format. Wingz is easy to use and worth buying, especially if you are satisfied with black-and-white PostScript output and on-screen presentations.

Desktop publishing software, Spreadsheet software, Informix Software Inc., DTP Software, Wingz (Spreadsheet software)

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A moving report: pages come to life with MacroMind Director

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This tutorial demonstrates the use of MacroMind Inc's MacroMind Director to turn a printed report into a slick, animated computer presentation. Director has two work areas, Studio and Overview. In Studio, animated pieces can be made by importing images from the Scrapbook or MacPaint formats and then manipulating them. In Overview, the images can be arranged in order and surrounded by text and sounds to create a flowing presentation. Director also has Auto-animate and Auto-generate features that make it easy to create moving text, charts that appear point-by-point, growing bar graphs and other simple animation effects. The tutorial also includes tips on scanning images, whether to use a color projector, how to create moving images, and how use the color palette with scanned images.

Usage, Multimedia software, Tutorial, MacroMind Inc., Macromedia Director (Multimedia authoring software)

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