RE: [Corpora-List] fast scanner?

From: Tim Buckwalter (TimBuckwalter@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Mar 13 2003 - 15:49:13 MET

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    Eric:

    Quite a few people have used "al-Qari' al-'Ali" by Sakhr:
    http://members.aol.com/gnhbos/ocr.htm
    Before you get involved with OCR, bear in mind that a considerable amount of
    data is already available on the Web.

    Regards,
    Tim Buckwalter
    Linguistic Data Consortium
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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora@lists.uib.no]On
    > Behalf Of Eric Atwell
    > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 5:16 AM
    > To: Rada Mihalcea
    > Cc: corpora@hd.uib.no; L Al-Sulaiti
    > Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] fast scanner?
    >
    >
    > 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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