Author Topic: Any recomendations for hebrew OCR? (Read 4384 times)

Side incomer · « **on:** May 17, 2012, 09:54:00 PM »

I found several of them online.
Wanted to know if anybody has experiance with any of them?

MoYS · « **Reply #1 on:** October 27, 2019, 02:11:38 PM »

I would star a new topic but i have same exact question, i need a program to read hebrew script and concert it into text, if anyone has recommendations for such a program it would be very helpful. TIA

aygart · « **Reply #2 on:** October 27, 2019, 03:45:30 PM »

My experience with a number of them but around ten years ago was that the proofreading after OCR was almost as tedious as typing

Yisroel Tech · « **Reply #3 on:** October 28, 2019, 09:51:30 AM »

It all depends on what the usage and how clear the document is.

ABBYY FineReader does a great job (try the online version free https://finereaderonline.com/en-us), and with the Dekstop version you can train the program based on your own text. But it is not very cheap.

stooges44 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 28, 2019, 10:50:24 AM »

Quote from: aygart on October 27, 2019, 03:45:30 PM

My experience with a number of them but around ten years ago was that the proofreading after OCR was almost as tedious as typing

Haha. Same. Brings to mind this:

MoYS · « **Reply #5 on:** October 28, 2019, 12:51:40 PM »

Quote from: Yisroel Tech on October 28, 2019, 09:51:30 AM

ABBYY FineReader does a great job (try the online version free https://finereaderonline.com/en-us), and with the Dekstop version you can train the program based on your own text. But it is not very cheap.

Is it just a pdf reader or it reads script too, it doesnt say clearly on the website

Yisroel Tech · « **Reply #6 on:** October 28, 2019, 01:15:07 PM »

Quote from: MoYS on October 28, 2019, 12:51:40 PM

Is it just a pdf reader or it reads script too, it doesnt say clearly on the website

It is a top of the line OCR program.

Not sure what you mean by scripts.

Zalc · « **Reply #7 on:** October 28, 2019, 01:17:15 PM »

Quote from: Side incomer on May 17, 2012, 09:54:00 PM

I found several of them online.
Wanted to know if anybody has experiance with any of them?

I2OCR has been good for me in the past (over 90% accurate for what I needed)

Free and fast to start, upload a page to test it and decide yourself.

gozalim · « **Reply #8 on:** October 28, 2019, 02:16:08 PM »

Quote from: MoYS on October 27, 2019, 02:11:38 PM

I would star a new topic but i have same exact question, i need a program to read hebrew script and concert it into text, if anyone has recommendations for such a program it would be very helpful. TIA

by script do you mean handwriting?
I suspect that is beyond the ability of software period. perhaps AI trained on a specific writer's handwriting and body of work...

MoYS · « **Reply #9 on:** October 29, 2019, 12:04:27 AM »

Quote from: gozalim on October 28, 2019, 02:16:08 PM

by script do you mean handwriting?

Sorry i should have been clearer,, i just had that word stuck in my head from another program i tried.

avadah · « **Reply #10 on:** April 12, 2020, 09:29:11 AM »

i'm trying to do this on R Meilech Bidermans Be'er haparsha. I2ocr isn't working for it. (it says wrong image type) Any ideas of what i can use?

moish · « **Reply #11 on:** April 12, 2020, 10:19:21 AM »

https://www.newocr.com/

avadah · « **Reply #12 on:** April 12, 2020, 02:43:25 PM »

Thanks!

Thingywingy · « **Reply #13 on:** December 20, 2020, 08:52:44 PM »

Any updated recommendation of a Hebrew OCR?

Jojo202 · « **Reply #14 on:** May 05, 2023, 10:24:01 AM »

Any update on this? I tried a few online ones and...

Quote from: aygart on October 27, 2019, 03:45:30 PM

the proofreading after OCR was almost as tedious as typing

Anyone have any ideas? Years have passed so maybe new innovations in technology?

gozalim · « **Reply #15 on:** May 05, 2023, 12:00:14 PM »

Sounds like something ai would do well in a few versions from now

Jojo202 · « **Reply #16 on:** May 05, 2023, 12:09:28 PM »

Quote from: gozalim on May 05, 2023, 12:00:14 PM

Sounds like something ai would do well in a few versions from now

Funny right now they cant even get Dall-e to write sensible words
https://spectrum.ieee.org/openai-dall-e-2#:~:text=Text%3A%20It%E2%80%99s,messing%20with%20it.%E2%80%9D

gozalim · « **Reply #17 on:** May 05, 2023, 12:16:53 PM »

Reading =/= writing

Jojo202 · « **Reply #18 on:** May 06, 2023, 09:07:09 PM »

Quote from: gozalim on May 05, 2023, 12:16:53 PM

Reading =/= writing

True, I just felt like i needed to share my recent discovery

Yisroel Tech · « **Reply #19 on:** May 07, 2023, 09:53:14 AM »

Quote from: Jojo202 on May 05, 2023, 12:09:28 PM

Funny right now they cant even get Dall-e to write sensible words
https://spectrum.ieee.org/openai-dall-e-2#:~:text=Text%3A%20It%E2%80%99s,messing%20with%20it.%E2%80%9D

But 'they' isn't everyone. The recently released DeepFloyd IF (by StabilityAI the developers of Stable Diffusion) does a pretty good job generating text.