[Trainer-talk] OCR and MultiLanguage Documents

[Dan Burke]

I think it's best to use the Fine Reader OCR engine.  I haven't
scanned a multilanguage document in a couple of years, but my
recollection is that the best you can get is to have the language
evaluated every page. If that is still the case, then you will have
mixed results with English and Portuguese interspersed on the same
page.

Dan


On 3/7/13, Robert Jaquiss <rjaquiss at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hello Erin:
>
>      In Kurzweil, go to the settings, recognition and check more than one
> language. Hopefully this will help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trainer-talk [mailto:trainer-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> Erin Lauridsen
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 9:41 AM
> To: Trainer-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Trainer-talk] OCR and MultiLanguage Documents
>
> Good Morning all,
> I know we've talked recently about pros and cons of various OCR software
> packages, but wondered if anyone had thoughts on which one best handles
> languages other than English.
> In this particular case, the client is a novice technology user, documents
> may include English and Portuguese on the same page, and the client is
> totally blind so will need to read them with text to speech.
> At CSUN, I saw the ReadIt Wand from GW Micro scan and read a multi-language
> document automatically, but am a little reluctant to trade the feature set
> of Kurzweil or Open Book for something that has primarily low vision
> oriented features.
> Thanks much for any thoughts you can provide.
>
> Erin Lauridsen
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