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>From: "Richard Kunst" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum"    <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: RE: #6051 Cyrillic OCR on the Mac?
>Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 10:33:58 -0400
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> Hello all,
>   I've checked what seems like everywhere, and I can't
> find any OCR programs
> for the mac that do Cyrillic.  On the windows side,
> I've found Tiger Pro,
> Cuneiform, and ABBYY.  Is there anything out there
> that runs on a Mac?
> Thanks,
> Jim Altieri
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Jim,

For the Mac, ReadIris 6.0 for MacOS will OCR Cyrillic and *many*
other scripts/languages. It costs less than US$100. The "Web
price" at www.readiris.com (or www.irisusa.com) is US$79.

Incidentally, for Cyrillic OCR on Windows, in addition to the
products you names, both ReadIris and Xerox/ScanSoft TextBridge
handle Cyrillic as well. Both of these products can be bought for
well below US$100.

Another plus for ReadIris: they will soon allow for saving OCRed
output in Unicode/ISO10646, escaping the tyranny of
codepages/proprietary characters sets. They will be the first of
the "Big 3" OCR programs (OmniPage, TextBRidge, ReadIris) to
support truly multilingual OCR with Unicode.

Best wishes,
Rick Kunst


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