Re: OCR Software
- From: Jon Noring <jon@[redacted]>
- Subject: Re: OCR Software
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:36:02 -0600
Jim Weiler wrote:
> ABBYY recently came out with their version 9.0 release. I've spent
> several days reviewing it and I have found it to be much slower than
> version 8 in every function except page recognition. Luckily for the
> end-users, they have added a wizard panel--you can start your
> recognition job with a couple clicks and forget about it. Come back
> later when it's done. Much later. As for recognition accuracy, I don't
> see any difference between version 8 and 9. The proofreading tools have
> improved somewhat in 9, and you can now get quite impressive PDF output
> direct from ABBYY. But because the application crawls on my 2GHZ
> machine, I will be sticking with FineReader 8.
This one data point seems to indicate that the OCR engine in ABBYY
version 9 is probably not much different than that in version 8.
Is this what others here have observed?
Jon Noring