Tesseract has a profile that was trained on Fraktur (
http://tesseract-ocr.googlecode.com/files/tesseract-2.01.deu-f.tar.gz)
I haven't tried it, so I can't say how fast or accurate it is.
See the project home page at http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
Simon
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Kevil, L H. <KevilL_at_missouri.edu> wrote:
> Does anyone know of an alternative to the Abbyy Finewriter OCR software for
> Fraktur? In the US we would be required to pay for each page OCRed, an
> unacceptable requirement. Surely there are alternatives? Thanks,
>
>
> L. Hunter Kevil, Ph.D.
> Collection Development Librarian
> University of Missouri
> Columbia, MO 65201
> 573-884-8760
> kevill_at_missouri.edu
>
Received on Mon Nov 09 2009 - 16:37:44 EST