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- From: pshuang@athena.mit.edu (Ping Huang)
- Subject: Re: SuperCompression?
- In-Reply-To: ariel.frailich@rose.com's message of Fri, 1 Jan 1993 16:09:03 GMT
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- References: <1993Jan01.160904.15472@rose.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 02:52:24 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan01.160904.15472@rose.com> ariel.frailich@rose.com (ariel frailich) writes:
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- > Compression ratios of 33:1? 70:1???
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- > If it's not a misprint or misinterpretation, how is this possible? Does
- > anyone have any information on this?
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- I believe Caere's new product joins a number of other products on the
- market (Xerox among others?) which manages documents. You scan in your
- warehouses full of paperwork, and then throw the paper away. The system
- keeps the scanned images around (which can be compressed at high ratios,
- of course, using JBIG or similar technologies), but also OCR's the
- documents as best as it can so that in addition to whatever keywords and
- indexing was done when the documents were scanned, you would also be
- able to do filtered full-text searches.
-
- --
- Ping Huang (INTERNET: pshuang@athena.mit.edu), probably speaking for himself
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