In experiments scanning a pristine printout employing typical business text in 12-point
Times New Roman font, recognition was nearly perfect. On a faxed tabular report, origi-
nally printed on an impact printer, complete with authentic coffee cup stains, Office still
managed to recognize more than 80% of the characters.
Whether that’s good enough for your business is largely a matter of how the scanned docu-
ments will be used. If you’re relying on sophisticated indexing to retrieve all the documents
that include specific phrases, recognition in the high 90s might not be good enough. On the
other hand, if you ...
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