Portland, OR Ð NeXT users will have a choice of optical character-recognition (OCR) software when Insight Software completes its port of Xerox Imaging Systems's ScanWorX this fall. The NeXT version, to be called ElectroWorX, will be marketed as a stand-alone product or coupled with Insight's ElectroFile document-management system.
Until now, OCR Servant, from HSD Microcomputer US, has had the NeXT OCR market to itself. According to Katharine Beers, Insight's director of marketing, ElectroWorX is suited for high-volume imaging. It can operate uninterrupted for hours, automatically converting image to text as the documents are scanned at the rate of 20 pages per minute.
Beers said ElectroWorX is able to read "dirty" documents and can learn from its previous experience. It is this ability that leads Xerox to classify its technology, also available on Sun and Macintosh systems, as "intelligent character recognition."
Insight said it will price the software at more than $2000 and expects to deliver it by mid-October.
Insight is at 3004 S.W. First Ave., Portland, OR 97201 and can be reached at 503/222-2425.