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DSpider · 11-11-2011, 01:59 PM

I don't think I've ever used "Microsoft Office Document Imaging". But then again, I never install the full Office suite.

I think you're asking about vertical writing (Japanese comes to mind). Vertical alignment usually looks like this:

...which is very easy to OCR. For text written like that... well, I don't think many books (or sections of books) are written that way so it shouldn't be too much of a bother to add it manually.

11-11-2011, 01:59 PM	#6
DSpider Evangelist Posts: 450 Karma: 343115 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Romania Device: PW2 2014	I don't think I've ever used "Microsoft Office Document Imaging". But then again, I never install the full Office suite. I think you're asking about vertical writing (Japanese comes to mind). Vertical alignment usually looks like this: ...which is very easy to OCR. For text written like that... well, I don't think many books (or sections of books) are written that way so it shouldn't be too much of a bother to add it manually.