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.
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik -
http://aronsson.se