SV: Scanning of devanagari

[Lars Martin Fosse]

Thanks Richard!

I have tried using I.R.I.S. which came with my Hewlett-Packard
all-in-one, but apparently successful scanning partly depends upon a
wordlist in the scanning program which is able to recognize context.

I.R.I.S can scan Chinese and Japanese, but apparently no South-Asian
language.

Lars Martin

> -----Opprinnelig melding-----
> Fra: Indology [mailto:INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk] På vegne av 
> Richard Mahoney
> Sendt: 6. oktober 2002 21:35
> Til: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
> Emne: Re: Scanning of devanagari
> 
> 
> Dear Lars,
> 
> On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 04:56:02PM +0200, Lars Martin Fosse wrote:
> 
> > Are any of you familiar with scanning software that handles 
> devanagari 
> > (or for that matter other Indic scripts).
> 
> I am not sure if it can be trained to recognise Devanagari, 
> but Clara OCR is certainly worth considering.
> 
> While Clara is developed on 32-bit Intel running GNU/Linux, I 
> can run it on FreeBSD 4.7-RC. Apparently it has been ported 
> to OS/2 and MS-Windows. Details are available from:
> 
 http://www.claraocr.org/


Regards,

 Richard


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