From owner-biophys@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Tue Jul 9 04:23:14 2002 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F14D17B16 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 04:23:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id F419317B18 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 04:23:10 +0100 (BST) Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D95F17B16 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 04:23:08 +0100 (BST) Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) id EAA02333 for biophys-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 04:23:07 +0100 (BST) X-Authentication-Warning: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: news set sender to using -f From: cranfordlines.claimscenter@verizon.net X-Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: What happened with your forms processing idea? Date: 9 Jul 2002 04:23:05 +0100 Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre Lines: 29 Message-ID: <20020709032257.78D5017B16@mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; X-Complaints-To: news@net.bio.net X-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F99517B18 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 04:23:02 +0100 (BST) X-Received: from Freedom (tamqfl1-ar8-4-64-006-232.tamqfl1.dsl-verizon.net [4.64.6.232]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78D5017B16 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 04:22:57 +0100 (BST) X-To: BIOPHYS@NET.BIO.NET X-Priority: 3 X-Library: Indy 8.0.25 To: biophys@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk X-Razor-id: fdf95c7fc9c475a2867003104cadb31546cab3c3 Sender: owner-biophys@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk We are struggling with the decisions related to wether or not to go ahead with our plans to purchase an OCR and forms scanning solution. An outside consultant mentioned that he had heard that not to long ago you folks were considering implementing OCR technology to reduce data entry costs and improve efficiency. If you could let us know if you did move foreward with any plans in that direction it would be of great help to us. May I ask what initialy prompted you to consider OCR? Did you decide it could help your compamy? What software did you go with? Would you recomend we take a look at it? At present we are still planning to continue our research until we decide which OCR system best suits our needs, then implement it quickly. If you are just starting to consider this technology feel free to stay in touch. We will let you know what we decide on and if it works for us. If you cannot advise on this please foreward this E-mail to the proper individual in your company who might be able to help with this. Thanks, Steve --- .