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Karl Murks · 01-03-2012, 05:59 PM

I am currently scanning a document in German with a large number of English names and running into a huge problem.

Every time a name appears that's very similar to a German word FineReader is replacing that name without ever asking and I can't find an option to switch this extremely annoying behavior off.

For example it persistently renames

Damon to Dämon
Elmer to Eimer
Hal to Hai

although the scanned document is clean and high quality and nothing whatsoever suggests that these characters are in any way ambiguous, yet none of these names gets recognized correctly even once!

So, any help or am I screwed? If the OCR is this unreliable I spend more time proofreading the result than just typing it all in myself and that completely defeats the purpose of OCR.

01-03-2012, 05:59 PM	#1
Karl Murks Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: none	FineReader 11 word recognition problems I am currently scanning a document in German with a large number of English names and running into a huge problem. Every time a name appears that's very similar to a German word FineReader is replacing that name without ever asking and I can't find an option to switch this extremely annoying behavior off. For example it persistently renames Damon to Dämon Elmer to Eimer Hal to Hai although the scanned document is clean and high quality and nothing whatsoever suggests that these characters are in any way ambiguous, yet none of these names gets recognized correctly even once! So, any help or am I screwed? If the OCR is this unreliable I spend more time proofreading the result than just typing it all in myself and that completely defeats the purpose of OCR.