Re: Need advice about German OCR and scanners

yanki wrote:

> 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?

  You're going to need some OCR program that can be trained over and above
what it knows already -- and as gothic letters are so different from
Roman, you may want to disable 'pre-training' altogether.

  FineReader can do that, but I have no idea if it does gothic letters well:
they are quite different from roman.

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