Re: Free/Open OCR solutions?

From: stuart yeates <stuart.yeates_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 08:45:38 +1200
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Michael Beccaria wrote:
> Andrew, 
> If you have MS Office, Microsoft has an OCR engine built in. I used it
> to OCR some college yearbooks at MPOW. It's not ABBYY but it works
> pretty well! It's scriptable using VBScript or your MS language of
> choice.
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa167607(office.11).aspx
> Notice the "OCR" method in the document.

Could someone comment on the efficacy of this OCR on languages with 
non-latin characters?

cheers
stuart
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Stuart Yeates
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Received on Mon Aug 02 2010 - 16:53:07 EDT