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 Message 1095 
 Ed Vance to MIKE POWELL 
 Gwbasic 
 18 Jan 26 20:37:49 
 
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>  
> You might need a specialized scanner, or scanner software, for that.  Most
> of the scanners I have ever had/operated would save things in formats --
> as images or PDFs or some proprietary format -- that were not good for
> text manipulation.
>  
> There might be utilities that could be used to extract the text out of
> those formats, though.
>  
> Mike
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My thinking was using software with the scanner to convert the writing
(printing) on the page into text.

CAD is what I recall learning about.
Computer Aided don't remember what the D meant, I'm guessing Design.

It all adds up to Laziness on my part, hopeing the PC would do allthe work of
entering paves and pages of pc code for Me.From what I can recall it was a
program in Byte magazine for which direction an antenna should be Pointed
toward a location.
Ed
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