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Author: David Starner
Email: prosfilaes at gmail dot com
Date: 2006-01-29 22:22:32
Subject: Re: OCR 18c English & Latin texts

> I am looking for ocr software to work with 18c English & Latin Parliamentary texts. If anyone has worked in this area or has some information to share, I would be grateful to hear. Thanks
>

Just straight forward OCR (ABY&Y FineReader is about the best I've heard of in a reasonable price range), with intelligent dictionary-based replacements of f with s, can produce fair to middling OCR of such texts.

Messages in this threadNameCollege/UniversityDate
OCR 18c English & Latin texts Julian Ball University of Southampton 2005-11-25 15:59:18
Re: OCR 18c English & Latin texts David Starner 2006-01-29 22:22:32