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<p class="MsoNormal">Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you’ve had success with OCR on typewritten documents produced with a cursive typewriter font, could you reply with your procedure?
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m using ABBYY FineReader 14 for OCR with scanned documents, but I’ve run into a snag on this particular issue, and I haven’t come up with the right help and/or Google search that will answer this question. Is there a font or filter add-on
which I need to install? Surely someone has figured this out…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">See here for a font that is similar: <a href="https://boingboing.net/2017/11/13/type-samples-from-smith-corona.html">
https://boingboing.net/2017/11/13/type-samples-from-smith-corona.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Carrie<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Carrie Phillips<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Archives & Special Collections Librarian<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Musselman Library<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bluffton University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1 University Drive<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bluffton, Ohio 45817<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">419-358-3275<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">phillipsc@bluffton.edu<o:p></o:p></p>
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