Re: Software to OCR Fraktur?

From: Kevil, L H. <KevilL_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 15:37:41 -0600
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Thanks, Simon. Tesseract - what a name - looks good.

Hunter

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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Simon Spero
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 3:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Software to OCR Fraktur?

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 - 16:39:49 EST