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Originally Posted by user
as for ABBY finereader, while it does very good ocr job, its spell checking is mediocre:
you can't edit the dictionary entries
you cant use regex to implemet your own correction rules of common mistakes
it doesn't autocorrect 'on the fly'
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In my Finereader 8 (version 9 is long overdue) you can use a Language Editor to create your own language based on one of the existing languages (i.e. copy of English) and add/import your own "user dictionary". There is also an option to use regular expressions. You can choose characters for your recognition set, prohibited characters, characters ignored in words. There are various options for punctuation characters and a Pattern Editor as well.
Having said all that, I admit that I have no time to play with all the options available. My current backlog of documents to ocr is over 1000 pages (and several hundred downloaded books). The 1% error margin in word recognition is acceptable for indexed text search, when you can use alternative words (or wildcards) to find and display a document with the words in context.