would highly recommend both of them.
Renata
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
Emmanuel Di Pretoro
Sent: Tuesday, 3 February 2009 7:54 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] best OCR package?
Hi,
It wasn't
Abbyy Finereader and Nuance Omnipage are the two leading commercial OCR
products. Both can achieve 98% + character accuracy on most book-like
material scanned at 300 dpi.
- Randy Stern (who formerly worked in the OCR industry)
At 07:37 AM 2/3/2009 -0500, Nicole Engard wrote:
I'm with
Alberto Accomazzi aaccoma...@cfa.harvard.edu wrote:
[...] I know about OCRopus but I have a feeling that
commercial products still have a significant edge over public domain
packages. [...]
OCRopus is released under the Apache License 2.0, which allows
commercial development. It is not a
Randy Stern wrote:
Abbyy Finereader and Nuance Omnipage are the two leading commercial
OCR products. Both can achieve 98% + character accuracy on most
book-like material scanned at 300 dpi.
At 07:37 AM 2/3/2009 -0500, Nicole Engard wrote:
I'm with Christian - I loved Abbyy FineReader when I
Randy Stern wrote:
Abbyy Finereader and Nuance Omnipage are the two leading commercial
OCR products. Both can achieve 98% + character accuracy on most
book-like material scanned at 300 dpi.
I know that 98% is impressive, but I always like to remember that with
an average of 2000 characters
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:09:54AM -0500, Walter Lewis wrote:
If we had to correct it all: a) it would never get done and b) it would
be better than some of the originals which are rife with typographic
errors.
Hence the genius of Distributed Proofreaders [1] and reCAPTCHA [2].
[1]
I'm with Christian - I loved Abbyy FineReader when I used it at both
my previous libraries. It's very accurate and it's affordable if
you're not using it for mass digitization :) but we never got the
server contract because like Christian said - it is quite expensive.
---
Nicole C. Engard
Open
Gabriel Farrell wrote:
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:09:54AM -0500, Walter Lewis wrote:
If we had to correct it all: a) it would never get done and b) it would
be better than some of the originals which are rife with typographic
errors.
Hence the genius of Distributed Proofreaders [1]
Karen Coyle wrote:
I know that 98% is impressive, but I always like to remember that with
an average of 2000 characters per page that means 40 potential errors
per book page. Just to give us some perspective on the level of
cleanup that will be needed for books being digitized today.
The good
