ath@prosys.se (Anders Thulin) (12/10/89)
Here's the result of my recent question of OCR software for IBM PC's and friends. A rather disappointing result: only two responses. Hardly worth a summary, I'd say. Hope it can stimulate further investigations, though. Summary of question about IBM PC OCR software: ---------------------------------------------- * Received comments: + Paragor, Recognita: > I have used several different packages, but I have not yet found anything > that could really be used in Iceland. The problem has to to with all > our accented characters. Foe example, most of the packages would be confused > by "accented-i", consider it to be an "i" or a "l". This applied equally > well to fixed fonts programs like Paragor (I thint that is how it was > spelled) and "trainable" programs. One program proved to be a lot better > than the rest - a Hungarian program named "Recognita". frisk@rhi.hi.is + Omnipage: > I was told that this software can recognize the 10 western > languages, but I don't know if Swedish is included. > The price is 1995 US-$ for an AT 80286 and it's also available for a MAC, > for which it is much cheaper. > Friends told me, that they are quite content with the results - they've > tested it with some pages of the Bible, which worked out pretty good. > It's available in 3 versions: > MAC for US-$ 795.00 > MS-DOS for XT or AT up to 80286 US-$ 1995.00 (it comes with an additional > board for a long slot. That includes 2MB RAM and a coprocessor) > 80386 for US-$ 895.00 reischl@siecomp.UUCP * Reviews No reviews were reported or found. The PC Omnipage package is probably close to the Mac Omnipage. Reviews for the Mac version can be found in: MacUser, February 1989 reviews 8 OCR pacakges for Mac, one of which is Omnipage Personal Computer World (England), June 1989 compares Omnipage and TextPert. * Other software & comments: This list is based on magazine ads and info from a few Swedish retailers. I don't have any experience with any of these products. - Recognita, Recognita Plus: Based on contour analysis of letters. Trainable. Reads 6-24 point glyphs. Can read uncompressed TIFF files. 99.9% hit rate claimed. - OCR Systems: ReadRight Template matching. Untrainable (?). - Flagstaff Engineering: SPOT Trainable (?) -- Anders Thulin, Programsystem AB, Teknikringen 2A, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden ath@prosys.se {uunet,mcsun}!sunic!prosys!ath