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- From: ariel.frailich@rose.com (ariel frailich)
- Subject: SuperCompression?
- Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 16:09:03 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan01.160904.15472@rose.com>
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- Date Entered: 01-01-93 11:04
- I just found this news item and it has me scratching my head:
-
- From NEWSBYTES, 24 Dec 92 edition (edited to save bandwidth):
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- New For Windows: Pagekeeper, Next-Generation Search & Retrieval
-
- LOS GATOS, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1992 DEC 21 (NB) -- Caere, known
- for its optical character recognition (OCR) products, is
- shipping Pagekeeper, a product it calls "intelligent
- information management software."
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- Pagekeeper works under Microsoft Windows and offers OCR from
- the company's flagship product Omnipage.
-
- [...]
-
- But the most important part of the product is its ability to take the
- text after it's scanned and recognized, or from the computer's
- hard disk, and, using natural language processing technology,
- automatically index on keywords it creates.
-
- [...]
-
- But, to save hard disk space, Pagekeeper also offers
- compression, with quick decompression, using its own
- Supercompression technology. The company says users can expect
- compression ratios of 33:1 but some users have reported over
- 70:1.
-
- [...]
-
- (Linda Rohrbough/19921218/Press Contact: Mike Lough, Caere, tel
- 408-395-7000, fax 408-354-2743)
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- Compression ratios of 33:1? 70:1???
-
- If it's not a misprint or misinterpretation, how is this possible? Does
- anyone have any information on this?
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- Thanks for any thoughts, comments, etc.
-
- Ariel Frailich
- ariel.frailich@rose.com
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