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Originally Posted by elibrarian
Oh well, forgot the question of our workflow, here goes:
[LIST][*]Scanning from original source (printed book) with Finereader (often source is printed with blackletter, as we specialize in 19th and early 20th century literature in danish - so we use the training ability of Finereader a lot, since there are many variations in the blackletter fonts used back then!)
Kim
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In the past I've tried (and tried and tried) to train FineReader 10 to handle old English (with ligatures) texts, and I concluded from my efforts that FR10 was a very slow (no?) learner. Eventually I gave up and just used MS word auto-correct options, eventually reaching a fully corrected version of the text - but this was very time consuming because FR10/11 is confused by the ligatures; for example, it would interpret the c-t ligature (probably the most difficult for it) in many different ways.
Finally I purchased the upgraded FR XIX Fraktur edition (Recognition Server v3) when ABBYY greatly reduced its price. Still pretty expensive but certainly worth the price if one works with 18th/early 19th century books. What a difference! RS3 reduced correction/proofing time by many days per book!