Arabic-L:GEN:OCR Query

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1) Subject: OCR Query

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Date: 21 Nov 2000
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: OCR Query

Sakhr's Automatic Reader 5.0 is multilingual Optical
Character Recognition (OCR) program, sets world
standards in accuracy and speed for converting
scanned documents to editable text files. Sakhr's
OCR builds entire archives in Arabic, Farsi, English,
and ten European languages without typing a single
character.  Sakhr's OCR program is a dependable and
time saving solution.

Sakhr's OCR (Professional or Office) can easily create,
collect, access, and index documents in just minutes.
Preserves layout, columns, tables, and graphics of the
original documents.  Results are checked Automatically
against the originals.  Users can access Sakhr's award
winning suite of dictionaries and text handling tools
directly from Automatic Reader or from within MS Arabic
Word, Office 95, or Office 97.

KEY FEATURES:

Multilingual: Recognize English and Arabic or English
and Farsi within the same 'pass'. Higher Accuracy: 99%
accuracy on laser-quality fonts.  Ten minutes training
raises accuracy to 99.8%. Faster Speed: Recognize up
to 500 characters per second. Choices: Speed of
intelligent Omni technology, or accuracy of pretrained
font recognition; displaying Arabic diacritical markings,
or not. Flexibility: Recognize documents of widely varying
print quality; include or exclude parts of image files.
Retain columns, tables, graphics, or font features that
are key ingredients of documents. Supports HTML and Unicode,
as well as TIF, PCX, BMP, MAG, TGA, GIF, DCX, AND JPG image
files. New: Text Boxes control recognition of text; Auto
adjusts image position; Personal Archiver edits and saves
images; Direct Link to email for sending text output.
Wizards guide new users through scanning to saving the new
text file. Tutorial: Trains new OCR users.

Automatic Reader utilizes Sakhr's innovative Arabic/Farsi
OCR engine with Scansoft's award-winning TextBridge.
OCR 13 languages, as well as bilingual text: Arabic,
Farsi, English, French, German, Austrian, Italian,
Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, and
Finnish.

Automatic Reader 5.0 is available in two versions:

The OFFICE Version--OCR capabilities in Arabic and English
only; also bilingual documents.  This version provides top
quality Omni technology for conversion of scanned text.
The Office Version does not have a batch mode feature,
spell checker, OLE and DDE capabilities, or trainability.


The PROFESSIONAL Version-OCR in Arabic, Farsi, English,
bilingual documents, and ten additional languages.  This
version also adds training technology to Omni technology
to further raise accuracy levels.  Users access 4 batch
modes, can train the program in specific fonts, use spell
checkers, Arabic linguistic rules, and OLE and DDE
features.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Pentium PC, VGA, CDROM,
16MB RAM, minimum 65MB storage available on hard disk
MS Arabic Windows 95/98/NT-WS (for Farsi and Arabic)
MS Windows 95/NT-WS (for the other 11 languages)

http://www.aramedia.com/ocr.htm

Ahlan Wa Sahlan...

George N. Hallak
AramediA Group
761 Adams Street
Boston, MA 02122, USA

http://www.aramedia.com
mailto:info at aramedia.com
T 617-825-3044 F 265-9648
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