RE: scanning non-English documents
- From: "DJ" <grouloc@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:03:22 -0500
Thank you Debra. I'm going to try scanning some of it again in a day or
two and then changing the font as suggested by another member. Isn't
Assistive Technology great?
DJ
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Debra Hernstrom
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 2:44 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: 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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