FineReader and Cuneiform

Cuneiform - this is how the word “cuneiform” is translated from English. True, I ran a little ahead. Let's return to the first word from heading. FineReader is an ideal solution for those who need the highest level of accuracy in recognition and preservation of text design, as written on the ABBYY website. Everything is very good, but, alas, it is not quite (or not) profitable to buy it for home. The truth is a way out, perhaps even the front door.

OCR CuneiForm can recognize any polygraphic, typewritten typefaces of all styles and fonts received from printers with the exception of decorative and handwritten. Special algorithms are built into the system for recognizing text from a dot-matrix printer, bad photocopies of faxes and typewriting.


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OCR CuneiForm is:

• high recognition quality;
• high speed;
• text recognition in Russian, English, mixed Russian-English, Ukrainian, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Swedish and others (more than 20);
• work in the autofragmentation mode to search for text blocks, tables and images, as well as a powerful tool for manual and semi-automatic fragmentation;
• recognition of tables of any structure and complexity, including without displaying grid lines;
• automatic saving of illustrations (black-and-white and color) and tables in the output document;
• full preservation of the page topology;
• support batch scanning and recognition;
• ease of use and intuitive interface, built-in helpers to work with the program;
• built-in text editor to work with the recognized text;
• combined display of images and recognition results.

The system uses a number of unique technologies, including adaptive recognition, neural networks, cognitive analysis of recognition alternatives and others.

But for us, these are not only valuable fur beautiful words, but also ... a license.
Yes, it is open source. A program forum has been launched on the website to coordinate work on the Open Source project.

At the moment, the program has two drawbacks:

• microwindow (so far only Windows, although I have not tried it under Vain)
• under whist did not go

Program website: http://www.cuneiform.ru/ .

UPD:
Earned under wine from the ALT Linux 4.0 Desktop box, recognized everything (tablet and text) and saved it in rtf. Can be copied to Openoffice.org
Thanks, discoverer .