A super-fast scanner isn't much use without good OCR software -
could I please "piggy-back" on this query: can anyone recommend
good OCR (and/or hadwritten script recognition?) for Arabic,
and other languages written in Arabic script,
to use with a fast scanner in corpus collection?
thanks
eric atwell, Leeds University
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Rada Mihalcea wrote:
>
> A rather unusual question for [corpora-list], but I believe many people on
> this mailing list have a good answer to this question.
>
> Our research lab is planning to get a fast scanner in the near future --
> but we have no previous experience with this. Any recommendations,
> suggestions, good/bad experiences with [super] fast scanners (autofeeders)
> available on the market would be most helpful.
>
> I will post a summary if there is interest.
>
> thanks,
> Rada
>
>
>
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