RE: displaying handwritten texts

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From: Ilan Eyman (ieyman@library.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 19 2002 - 12:40:49 PDT

I have used Adobe Capture at the University of Illinois. I think there
some capture functionality the full Acrobat (Cheaper than Capture).
Double check this before you buy.
Basically, Capture will make an "Image PDF" out of anything you scan.
It also attempts to OCR it, but Handwriting will not work. The "Image
PDF" is readable and printable by anyone with the free Acrobat reader,
and the file size, while still rather large, can be smaller than a page
size GIF file, depending on the program settings. Good Luck!

Ilan Eyman
Electronic Outreach Librarian
Marian Koshland Bioscience and Natural Resources Library

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[mailto:owner-webnet-list@uclink4.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Carolyn
Hill
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:47 AM
To: webnet-list@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Subject: [Webnet] displaying handwritten texts

We have things in students' handwriting and papers with teachers'
handwritten comments that we'd like to display, as is, on the Web. I
know I can scan these things and create image files to insert in Web
pages--but is there another way to display them? (We want visitors to
see the original notes and handwriting, not an OCRd or retyped version.)

--Carolyn Hill
College Writing Programs

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