No, other than it is possible to do so: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/about-ocr-international-issues-HP003081238.aspx http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/about-ocr-international-issues-HP003081238.aspx Mike Beccaria Systems Librarian Head of Digital Initiative Paul Smith's College 518.327.6376 mbeccaria_at_paulsmiths.edu -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of stuart yeates Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 4:46 PM To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Free/Open OCR solutions? 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 -- Stuart Yeates http://www.nzetc.org/ New Zealand Electronic Text Centre http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ Institutional RepositoryReceived on Tue Aug 03 2010 - 08:37:32 EDT