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Iain · 01-27-2012, 04:00 AM

Fine Reader is indeed a good piece of software.

However, the results depend greatly on the source material. My scans (around 500 books) have been of normal format paperbacks and the quality ranges from near perfect to near unreadable.

There are a number of errors which happen frequently, especially with small fonts 'I' being replaced by '1', 'tl' being replaced by 'd' and exclamation marks being replaced by various glyphs.

Additionally, if you have accented characters (and select additional languages to English) you find rather more accented characters in the OCR output than in the original!

This is not a criticism - most books are more than readable, simply an acknowledgement that the product is not perfect!

01-27-2012, 04:00 AM	#2
Iain Enthusiast Posts: 49 Karma: 14 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Harrogate, England Device: iPad	Fine Reader Fine Reader is indeed a good piece of software. However, the results depend greatly on the source material. My scans (around 500 books) have been of normal format paperbacks and the quality ranges from near perfect to near unreadable. There are a number of errors which happen frequently, especially with small fonts 'I' being replaced by '1', 'tl' being replaced by 'd' and exclamation marks being replaced by various glyphs. Additionally, if you have accented characters (and select additional languages to English) you find rather more accented characters in the OCR output than in the original! This is not a criticism - most books are more than readable, simply an acknowledgement that the product is not perfect!