[Corpora-List] fast scanner?

[Tim Buckwalter]

Eric:

Quite a few people have used "al-Qari' al-'Ali" by Sakhr:
http://members.aol.com/gnhbos/ocr.htm
Before you get involved with OCR, bear in mind that a considerable amount of
data is already available on the Web.

Regards,
Tim Buckwalter
Linguistic Data Consortium
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-corpora at lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora at lists.uib.no]On
> Behalf Of Eric Atwell
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 5:16 AM
> To: Rada Mihalcea
> Cc: corpora at hd.uib.no; L Al-Sulaiti
> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] fast scanner?
>
>
> A super-fast scanner isn't much use without good OCR software -
> could I please "piggy-back" on this query: can anyone recommend
> good OCR (and/or hadwritten script recognition?) for Arabic,
> and other languages written in Arabic script,
> to use with a fast scanner in corpus collection?
>
> thanks
>
> eric atwell, Leeds University
>
>
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Rada Mihalcea wrote:
>
> >
> > A rather unusual question for [corpora-list], but I believe
> many people on
> > this mailing list have a good answer to this question.
> >
> > Our research lab is planning to get a fast scanner in the near future --
> > but we have no previous experience with this. Any recommendations,
> > suggestions, good/bad experiences with [super] fast scanners
> (autofeeders)
> > available on the market would be most helpful.
> >
> > I will post a summary if there is interest.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Rada
> >
> >
> >
>
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