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it · 07-21-2015, 05:36 AM

Following the conversation in the maps thread about handwriting, I was thinking of getting rid of mine.

Over the years I've accumulated a few heavy weight boxes of papers - mostly consisting of brain dumps. Some of them got lost through the journey but enough are still around to be a PITA each time I move, which is relatively often. Not to mention pretty difficult to navigate & organize, which is a big hamper on the already slim to non existent chance I will ever try to actually do anything with them... But I don't quite have the heart to throw them all out.

Short story shorter, I am looking for a good text recognition software that is able to recognize and save text from scans or - better yet - pictures.

It needs to be able to do pretty well with very tough writing. Imagine if you will a foreigner's english, with the hand eye coordination of a barbarian brute, the brain of a dyslexic child, and the reincarnated soul of the douche-bag who wrote the Voynich manuscript for the exact purpose of giving archaeologists a headache, and you'd pretty much be on the mark. Extra points if it's fluent in English and Hebrew.

Any suggestions?

07-21-2015, 05:36 AM	#1
it Banned Join Date: Dec 2011 Posts: 772	text recognition software Following the conversation in the maps thread about handwriting, I was thinking of getting rid of mine. Over the years I've accumulated a few heavy weight boxes of papers - mostly consisting of brain dumps. Some of them got lost through the journey but enough are still around to be a PITA each time I move, which is relatively often. Not to mention pretty difficult to navigate & organize, which is a big hamper on the already slim to non existent chance I will ever try to actually do anything with them... But I don't quite have the heart to throw them all out. Short story shorter, I am looking for a good text recognition software that is able to recognize and save text from scans or - better yet - pictures. It needs to be able to do pretty well with very tough writing. Imagine if you will a foreigner's english, with the hand eye coordination of a barbarian brute, the brain of a dyslexic child, and the reincarnated soul of the douche-bag who wrote the Voynich manuscript for the exact purpose of giving archaeologists a headache, and you'd pretty much be on the mark. Extra points if it's fluent in English and Hebrew. Any suggestions?