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Originally Posted by ahi
How is ABBYY (What the hell kind of name is that?!) for OCR-ing older books filled with long s characters and other such delights?
- Ahi |
I believe it can't do long s. Its languages are also limited; I gather it has good Cyrillic alphabet coverage, but doesn't yet do right-to-left languages. It also doesn't deal with en-dashes (although it'll accept them if added, it never reads them) or smart quotes (same issue).
There's a review at
http://capecodhistory.us/books/PrestoOCR.htm (scroll past the Presto review) describing some of the areas where ABBYY doesn't work well.
"Best on the market today" doesn't mean "works for all purposes." FineReader's terrific for OCRing modern novels and most textbooks; it's got problems for more complex works. The best that can be said about it is that the viewing window arrangement allows easy editing while looking at the scanned page.