OCR today?

[Karla Huebner]

I too would be interested in a good comparison of Omnipage and FineReader,
as I have Omnipage and am wondering whether I should switch to FineReader.
I have lots of PDF files, mainly in Czech, that I would like to run OCR on
to make the text searchable and highlightable in Acrobat (since Acrobat's
Paper Capture feature doesn't offer Czech as an option).

Most of my PDF files were created in one of two ways: 1) photocopies were
fed through an HP Document Sender or 2) I photographed the pages with my
digital camera and imported the images into Acrobat. Therefore, these files
have some quirks and Omnipage was extremely slow and troubled by the one
short article I fed it, although it is capable of doing a decent job on
Czech if given a very clean, straight copy.

Karla Huebner
University of Pittsburgh

At 02:43 PM 5/21/2005, you wrote:

>The last time I checked (about 9-12 months ago) FineReader was still on
>top, but
>there were some fans of Readiris.  (I gather it would be the choice for
>Mac-only people...)
>And, as usual, though you wouldn't buy it with Russian in mind, if your shop
>happened to have full current OmniPage, it was perhaps worth a try.
>
>Does anyone have some direct experience with recent revs of these products?
>
>Now, with the background out of the way - does anybody have fresh news
>about actually using this stuff? ;^)
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Robin
>Robin LaPasha
>ruslan at duke.edu

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