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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Nick,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As of 2017, there didn’t seem to be any for the general use case of OCR for the International Phonetic Alphabet:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/19579/ocr-program-for-ipa?atw=1">https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/19579/ocr-program-for-ipa?atw=1</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tesseract is trainable though. There is a learning curve and it would take some development effort of a new file (mul.traineddata?) to get it functional for your needs.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata">https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There is a GUI called a9t9 that may be helpful as well, but it won’t work for IPA right out of the box. It can make use of Tesseract trained data files.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Charles Riley<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Catalog Librarian for African Languages<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yale University Library <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Nick Thieberger <thien@unimelb.edu.au> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 5, 2019 3:16 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> RNLD mailing list <r-n-l-d@lists.unimelb.edu.au><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [RNLD] OCR<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Has anyone had experience of successful OCR of ŋ and superscript w? I have tried in ABBYY and OmniPage with no success. This is to produce a new version of an existing print dictionary for which we havea pdf.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nick<o:p></o:p></p>
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