OCR'ing jat'

[Yoshimasa Tsuji]

FineReader 5.0 appears to read jat' all right. That is a great news
to me. Previously, there was no way to read outdated Russian characters
properly mainly because the character codes and the glyphs did not
exist except in UNICODE.
 Having failed to install FineReader5.0 on a Windows98R2, I installed
it on a Windows2000 machine with success. The UNICODE fonts with
jat' are at the moment very rare (Mine are only Linotype and Palatino).

The next requirement is of course the dictionary of old Russian
spelling. I do have my own, but it's far from being decent (some 50,000
forms). (FineReader does not have one: it has the ordinary Russian
dictionary, but users cannot retrieve its contents.)

   I wonder if you know of a freely available electronic
list of Russian word forms (expanded to all the possible word forms).

  OCR is hardly practical without the help of a dictionary.
Thank you.

Cheers,
Tsuji

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With FineReader4.0, I actually read jat' fairly decently (taught the
glyph, assigned *e for jat', etc.), but assigning two letters to one
letter always caused nuisances.

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