Re: scanning non-English documents



Hello,
While scanning with kurzweil, I have found that letter with umlauts rarely are recognized correctly. In particular, the u-umlaut wich comes out as ii and I've always had to spellcheck for words with ii and correct the words manually. HTH. BI don't have any knowledge of scanning German texts with any other Oother than Kurzweil verssion 9. 

debra Hernstrom


Debra HernstromAt 11:58 AM 12/31/2008, you wrote:

Hmm.  If it's written in Faktur (gothic letters), it may create a
problem.  Have you tried making sure the imported text is changed to a
font Jaws reads better?  I had a book of Goethe's poems which I
scanned in with OpenBook and exported to a text file for reading with
Jaws.  It did just fine.  Sure there were some mistakes, what scanner
doesn't make them after all, but over all, it was sehr gut.  I will
say that I had the font set to Times New Roman 10 point.  That's my
default setting.  Some scanning software tries to keep the font of the
original when it imports though, so, hence my suggestion.

Viel Glück
Alex


On 12/29/08, DJ <grouloc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is anyone experienced with scanning a document which is written in German
> for example? If so, what has been your experience with getting JAWS to read > it correctly after choosing the correct language of course? I've tried this > in Text Cloner Professional and ABBYY Fine Reader 6 and have also chosen the 
> correct language in those programs as well.
>
> I wonder if the fact that some of it is Gothic German might be part of the
> problem?
>
> Thanks all.
>
> DJ
>
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