Re: Need advice about German OCR and scanners

On 14 Sep 2003 09:52:43 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (yanki) wrote:

>I have to read essays in German for my research. My German is very bad
>so I decided to purchase scanner with a German OCR to make the
>translation more quickly (using computerized dictionary)
>My qustions are:
>
>1. Do I need a good scanner (to be able to read old German fonts) or a
>basic scanner will do the job together with a good OCR?
>
>2. Has anyone got an idea about a good German OCR for my purposes?
>

FineReader claims to be very multi-lingual. They have a demo that works
for 15 starts or 15 hours. Others have also claimed they install CDilla
CD copy protection,  which if true is a case against them as far as I'm
concerned.