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Aug 17, 2005 15:18

Following on the heels of the last post ( Read more... )

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zhwj August 20 2005, 04:58:44 UTC

Have you tried Founder's software? It's available for evaluation here, and it seems to work pretty well, as long as you indicate what language you're trying to recognize (simplified, traditional, or English).

Make sure your image quality is top-knotch, though - it doesn't like JPEG artifacts at all.

bokane August 20 2005, 05:02:09 UTC

Cheers - I ended up downloading Hanwang something-or-other, and it's mostly doing the trick - though to be honest, considering that I only needed about 6 pages of text, the amount of time I spent searching, downloading, configuring Windows to run Chinese applications, setting up the networked scanner, scanning, and OCR'ing/tweaking the documents could probably have been better spent, like, retyping them. The technology's pretty good, but once it gets about 5% better, it'll be about a million% more useful.

bokane August 20 2005, 05:02:56 UTC

Oh - and are you on MSN/AIM at all?

zhwj August 20 2005, 07:57:26 UTC

Only when I have an appointment to chat with someone. My poor computer thrashes like crazy when I keep too much stuff memory resident.