Arabic-L:GEN:OCR response and OCR thanks

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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1) Subject:OCR thanks
2) Subject:OCR response
3) Subject:OCR response

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Date: 21 Nov 2006
From:"Waheed Samy" <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:OCR thanks

Thank you very much for the OCR responses.
Waheed

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Date: 21 Nov 2006
From:"Daniel Newman" <daniel.newman at durham.ac.uk>
Subject:OCR response

Hello,

I have used both ReadIris (admittedly not the most recent version)  
and, recently, Sakhr's Automatic Reader. The former really didn't do  
the job as it was much too erratic. Sakhr's program is more reliable,  
but in my experience still requires careful (and time-consuming) post- 
scanning editing, and I feel that it does not live up to the claims  
of its makers in terms of accuracy. In addition, it comes at quite a  
hefty price (I believe it is around $1500), whereas it can only be  
used on one machine, and one machine ONLY as it comes with a security  
code.
However, despite its problems, I still think Sakhr is the best Arabic  
OCR that I have seen, as long as you don't expect the same  
performance and end result that we have grown accustomed to with OCR  
software for European languages.
Best,

D. Newman

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Date: 21 Nov 2006
From:Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu
Subject:OCR response

I've been using Novosoft's Verus (yes, it's expensive) this semester,  
and I really like it.  It has to be edited, of course, but not as  
much as you might think, and the editing interface in really nice:  
when your cursor is in a word in the text, that word also is  
highlighted in the scan in the pane above, which can be set to any  
size.  Every once in awhile the whole thing goes nuts, and you have  
to set the columns by hand, but not that often.  In general I've been  
amazed at how much we've been able to get done.

dil

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