[Corpora-List] Converting PDFs in Arabic to txt/xml for further corpus analysis

[Angus Grieve-Smith]

I've seen a lot of recommendations for ABBYY's Fine Reader, but I want 
to point out that if all you want to do is convert PDFs to text, ABBYY's 
PDF Transformer uses the exact same OCR engine, and is half the price:

http://pdftransformer.abbyy.com/

I've used it for French with good results.

On 9/12/2014 8:11 AM, Edward Jahn wrote:
> I have used ABBYY FineREader with great sucess for many languages, 
> including some
> with non-Latin scripts, although I have not tried it with Arabic. I 
> have tried some other
> OCR software products, and found this to be the best.
>
> The download link is
> http://www.abbyy.com/?adw=google_hq_us_search_brand&gclid=CNa67dDQ28ACFbTm7Aod_UsATA
>
> It needs to be trained on the individual language, which may take 
> time. And there
> are some tricks to using it that take some time to learn. But once the 
> software and
> the user have both been trained, I find it works well.
>
> Ed Jahn
> George Mason University
> Virginia US
>
>
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