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Any recomendations for hebrew OCR?
« 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?
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Re: Any recomendations for hebrew OCR?
« 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

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Re: Any recomendations for hebrew OCR?
« 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
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Re: Any recomendations for hebrew OCR?
« 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.

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Re: Any recomendations for hebrew OCR?
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2019, 10:50:24 AM »
My experience with a number of them but around ten years ago was that the proofreading after OCR was almost as tedious as typing

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Re: Any recomendations for hebrew OCR?
« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2019, 12:51:40 PM »
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

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Re: Any recomendations for hebrew OCR?
« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2019, 01:15:07 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.

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Re: Any recomendations for hebrew OCR?
« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2019, 01:17:15 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)

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Re: Any recomendations for hebrew OCR?
« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2019, 02:16:08 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...

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Re: Any recomendations for hebrew OCR?
« Reply #9 on: October 29, 2019, 12:04:27 AM »
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.

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Re: Any recomendations for hebrew OCR?
« 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?
« Last Edit: April 12, 2020, 09:40:26 AM by avadah »

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Re: Any recomendations for hebrew OCR?
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Re: Any recomendations for hebrew OCR?
« Reply #12 on: April 12, 2020, 02:43:25 PM »
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Re: Any recomendations for hebrew OCR?
« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2020, 08:52:44 PM »
Any updated recommendation of a Hebrew OCR?
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Re: Any recomendations for hebrew OCR?
« Reply #14 on: May 05, 2023, 10:24:01 AM »
Any update on this? I tried a few online ones and...
the proofreading after OCR was almost as tedious as typing
Anyone have any ideas? Years have passed so maybe new innovations in technology?

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Re: Any recomendations for hebrew OCR?
« Reply #15 on: May 05, 2023, 12:00:14 PM »
Sounds like something ai would do well in a few versions from now

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Re: Any recomendations for hebrew OCR?
« Reply #16 on: May 05, 2023, 12:09:28 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

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Re: Any recomendations for hebrew OCR?
« Reply #17 on: May 05, 2023, 12:16:53 PM »
Reading =/= writing

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Re: Any recomendations for hebrew OCR?
« Reply #18 on: May 06, 2023, 09:07:09 PM »
Reading =/= writing
True, I just felt like i needed to share my recent discovery

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Re: Any recomendations for hebrew OCR?
« Reply #19 on: May 07, 2023, 09:53:14 AM »
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.