OCR Scanners for Russian

[Kjetil Rå Hauge]

>Dear Seelangers,
>
>Our office is currently looking for a text scanner for the Russian
>Language.  I know that many exist, in the past I was told that most
>were very low quality and took more time than if I were to just
>re-type the text. 
>
>I know that times have changed, and technology improves.  Does
>anyone out there have a recommendation for an OCR Russian text
>scanner?
>

FineReader or FineReader Pro. Even the non-pro version that comes
bundled with some scanners gives very good results for Russian and a
number of other languages. A long-awaited Mac version seems to be
out, too.
--
-- Kjetil Rå Hauge, U. of Oslo. Phone +47/22856710, fax +47/22854140
-- (this msg sent from home, +47/67148424, fax +1/5084372444)

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