OCR today?

[Ruby J. Jones]

I'm not the most experienced with OCR, but OmniPage Pro 14 was a serious
disappointment for me.  The Cyrillic characters have a tendency to bleed
through into the English--and vice versa--even when the document contains
only one language.  This greatly increased the editing time.  Maybe I'll be
trying Finereader instead.

Ruby J. Jones
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78713
(512) 471-3607 [work] / (512) 441-1277 [home]
rubyj at mail.utexas.edu
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From: "Charles Gribble" <gribble.3 at OSU.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] OCR today?


> At 02:43 PM 5/21/2005, you wrote:
>
>>Does anyone have some direct experience with recent revs of these
>>products?
> @I have been using Finereader 7.0 Professional, PC version, for some time.
> It rarely makes a mistake on good text, and does well even on most
> not-so-good text.  Its only weakness is that it does not usually recognize
> accented Cyrillic letters, which is quite inconvenient for working with
> pedagogical materials.  I have found that by including Czech as one of the
> recognition languages, along with English and Russian (Or Bulgarian, which
> it also does flawlessly), one may get the letters a, e, i, o, u, y with
> acute accent, but not with grave, and no accented hard sign in Bulgarian
> or accented r(p) in BCS or Slovenian.  It's an amazingly good program.
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> e-mail: gribble.3 at osu.edu
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