--- Forwarded Message from "Richard Kunst" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >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 >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >Importance: Normal ------------------ > 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 > [log in to unmask] 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 _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ The Humanities Computing Laboratory A Nonprofit Education and Research Corporation 301 W. Main St., Suite 400-I Durham, NC 27701 USA Tel. (919) 667-9556, (919) 656-5915 Fax: (919) 667-9556 E-mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.humancomp.org _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/