Amir Ladsgroup, 24/06/2014 15:37:
I have access to huge resources of old books in
Persian (some of them
are even typed) and almost all of them can be imported to Wikisource but
the problem is I don't have (or know) any OCR for Persian, Do you know
which OCR software supports Persian (supporting Arabic is not enough; I
checked several programs) texts?
The only result for "Persian" and OCR in abbyy website is
<http://www.abbyy.com/CaseStudies/SISU-Reveals-Its-Multilingual-Content-to-Academic-Community-Thanks-to-ABBYY-Recognition-Server/>,
weird! Worth asking them some details, they might have some additional
plugins.
On the FLOSS side, maybe some library in Iran made some investments on
tesseract? If there's any big digital library of Persian content you
should ask them as well.
Reminder:
archive.org is still in need of people willing to compare 8.0
vs. 9.0 OCR results of some books in their language. :)
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.wikisource/1552
Nemo