Calera TrueScan for PC/AT

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The Calera TrueScan is a scanner recognition daughter card designed for the IBM PC/AT in 1988, and it cost over £5500 including software! It can process text documents in seconds, and allows for commercial scanners to connect to a PC. It's main selling point was that it could process a 2500 character page into a Microsoft Word document in only 1 minute 45 seconds. This specific example was actually imported into Sweden and used by a firm called Optitech, based in Ideon Research Park.

Date : 1988

Physical Description : Scanner daughter card Box Calera iRecognise Professional Plus software stored on 5 floppy disks User manual Specification page

Provenance :
Calera were a Cambridge based company that specialised in OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software, which allows computers to basically any printed text. They were founded in 1982, and were later bought by Caere in 1994



This exhibit has a reference ID of CH72904. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History. 		 

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