ruslan@uncecs.edu (Robin C. LaPasha) (01/05/90)
Can someone give me any pointers - or better yet, words of experience - for trying to scan non-Latin character sets? 1. I want to scan Cyrillic (usually Russian,) from typeset text (or xerox thereof.) Dual capabilities for Cyrillic and Latin would be okay too, but not absolutely mandatory. 2. It would be nice if it ran with a micro and some normally available scanner (that can get a full page in.) PC or Mac or whatever on the micro. But if it's on something else, tell me anyway. So - it'll probably need one of those "teachable" OCR programs, so we can tell it about Cyrillic letters, right? Somebody at a national Slavic conference said they tried a Kurzweil optical scanner, but that it crashed frequently. (This was a few years ago, and they didn't know about the software for it.) The setup would be for frequent and/or heavy use, so if the "training" could be saved in a file, then loaded whenever the Cyrillic needs doing, that'd be optimal. It'd also be nice if I could convert the text to some nice PostScript fonts in a word processor... I don't read all these groups, so - Just email to me, and if I get useful info I'll summarize. Let me know if there's a particularly appropriate group to followup to, as well. Thanks in advance. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=- Robin LaPasha |Deep-Six your ruslan@ecsvax.uncecs.edu |files with VI! ;^) ;^) ;^)