On 12/01/2011 04:08 AM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
On 11/30/2011 09:55 PM, Eugene Zelenko wrote:
ABBYY has own online OCR service http://finereader.abbyyonline.com
So, is the service any good? They even promise to do Fraktur (blackletter). Does it work well?
After having tried it, I'm less enthusiastic. The web user interface is only upload images, download OCR text. There is no interaction with adjusting segments / zones or training the OCR output. Only 40 languages are supported, and there is no way to indicate special dictionaries for old spelling. Blackletter is only supported for German and Latvian. The upload button is based on Flash, and didn't quite work in Firefox on Linux, but it worked in Opera.
It worked OK for a modern (not blackletter) Norwegian text from the 1930s. An advantage is that you can start as low as 50 pages for EUR 3.50. Double that and you get 200 pages. For advanced jobs, I still recommend buying the Professional edition, but some users might find the online version useful.