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Old 01-04-2012, 02:55 PM   #4
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If the only issue with German is that the i and l get confused sometimes, and only for stuff not in the dictionary (ie. names, English names in particular) which you can easily batch replace, then it means you have it EASY! For Romanian, FineReader has a big, BIG problem with the capital letter Î, where it's always recognized as a lowercase, no matter the circumstance. And it's like twice its size! î vs Î !

And I always batch replace:

. î
! î
? î
: î
; î

...with their appropriate uppercase, depending on the situation. Like for ":" and ";" I can't just hit "Replace All", sometimes I have to go through all instances with "Find Next". Unfortunately I can't batch replace anything that starts with the letter î at the beginning of a paragraph! FineReader can only search for Optional Hyphen and Line Break, not paragraph ending marks so that maybe I could search for "¶ î", or something like "^p î" to make my life easier... Then there's the issue with words ending in "-1" instead of "-l" (short form, kinda like the English it's, don't, grandson's, etc.) ...

Yes, it takes a few extra minutes sorting it all out but it's NOTHING like typing the whole book from scratch. You should appreciate it more, this FineReader. It's currently the best available, hands down. But hey, if you're really confident that you can do a better job typing it in, be my guest!
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