Re: Hardware and software recommendations for OCR on a book series

I use and have used OmniPage Pro for several years - it does well, though I
do have to manually edit end-of-line hyphonated words (OmniPage Pro catches
them, and it's just a matter of retyping).

http://www.scansoft.com/products/

I did try out Abbyy FineReader several years ago and it did just as good a
job.  The only reason I didn't buy it was I had already paid for OmniPage
Pro.

http://www.abbyy.com/

FineReader has a free trial download at

http://download.abbyy.com/content/default.aspx

OmniPage does not appear to have a free trial download, but you can poke
around and perhaps find one.

Maris

Tim Regan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'd like to scan in a series of novels and convert them to text for
> analysis on the PC (occurance of rare words etc). I can pick up PDFs
> from peer-to-peer file share applications like Kazaa, but the OCR has
> introduced errors into them (especially for words that span lines for
> ex-
> ample that one).
>
> Do you have any recommendations for accurate fast scanners, and for
> accurate fast OCR software? I did check the FAQ at
> http://www.cfar.umd.edu/~kia/ocr-faq.html
> but it was last updated in March 1997!
>
> Ideally, I'd like a "money's no object" recommendation and a "budget"
> recommendation.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim.


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