Sample Passage One: Optical Character Recognition practice CAT Reader OCR Software allows fast and accurate conversion of scanned text into ASCII or word processor files, It sup- ports scanners ranging from several thousand dollars to two hundred dollars, from flat-bed, sheet-fed scanners to band scanners. Imagine how economical it would be to set up a PC- based OCR system with a band scanner for under 6OO dollars, Most OCR softwares require scanried input at 300 dpi (dots per inch) resolution, To accommodate hand-held scanners which may only scan at 2OO dpi, the CAT Reader OCR Softwarecan read in- coming text at such low resolution with high accuracy, Reading typeset text is no Ionger a Privilege of thousand-dol- lar OCR packages. The intelligent CAT Reader can read kerned or typeset characters as accurately as it reads monospaced and proportional characters,