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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5118 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 9 of 20 19 October 2011 at 9:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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I use Finereader for this. It's not free but it's pretty good. Most of the scans I use are of books I buy myself
rather than downloading online. It does western European languages really well. I'm studying Japanese atm and it does an ok job although not as good. The newer version checks a Japanese dictionary so it's a lot better than the older version i used to use. I haven't tried Arabic. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ericounet Senior Member France yojik.euRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5369 days ago 157 posts - 414 votes Studies: English, German, Russian | Message 10 of 20 19 October 2011 at 10:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi,
I use Finereader too for French/Russian or English/Russian (learning) books and all the DLI stuff (work in progress ...). The only problem I encountered is the stressed voyels (it's an special unicode character, not an ordinary accentued character like in French: é ) The learning books are quite allways accentued (stressed), and I could not get FineReader recognise them as a compound character: a letter and the stress sign. I managed to recognise the stressed characters as simple characters and put the stressed sign after, when editing. Edited by Ericounet on 19 October 2011 at 10:14pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| The Chief Rat Newbie United States blogger.com/blogger.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4647 days ago 2 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English* | Message 11 of 20 15 January 2012 at 2:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hey,
I don't think I really understand what you guys mean as 'edible text'. But when I download a PDF file for me to read on my kindle, I change the format in Calibre. It's a free ebook managing software. You can change the format of anything into anything for anything (I think). 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Kyle Corrie Senior Member United States Joined 4763 days ago 175 posts - 464 votes | Message 12 of 20 15 January 2012 at 7:54pm | IP Logged | ||
The word is 'editable', not 'edible'. You can't eat the words. Secondly, I explained what was meant in the first post even if you don't know what 'edit' means. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4649 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 13 of 20 15 January 2012 at 8:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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ABBYY FineReader is not free, but it's definitely the best one in the market! I've been using it for a while and I must reccomend it!
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6404 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 14 of 20 15 January 2012 at 10:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm using FreeOCR, which, as the name suggests, is free. It comes with support for a
bunch of languages, mostly Western European. It probably makes more mistakes than the commercial programs, because it's based on old technology. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fiziwig Senior Member United States Joined 4799 days ago 297 posts - 618 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 15 of 20 16 January 2012 at 12:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Maybe people haven't noticed this, but in Acrobat reader when looking at a pdf that is scanned text you can right click on the toolbar and under "Select & Zoom" you can add the "Select Tool". With this tool you can select scanned text and copy it for pasting into a regular text editor. The OCR is build right into Acrobat Reader, so you don't need a separate program.
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| tmp011007 Diglot Senior Member Congo Joined 6003 days ago 199 posts - 346 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese | Message 16 of 20 16 January 2012 at 6:16pm | IP Logged | ||
unfortunately, there is a difference (dictionary things, maybe?) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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