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Best App for Scanning and OCR for Hebrew Texts?
« on: January 22, 2025, 03:47:01 AM »
I'm looking for suggestions for an app that’s good at scanning and performing OCR on Hebrew texts. My main purpose is to work with out-of-copyright seforim that aren’t available on HebrewBooks or Otzar HaChochma.

If you’ve used something that works well, I’d greatly appreciate your advice. Thank you!

Also, I’m curious—does anyone know how Otzar HaChochma or HebrewBooks handle their scanning & OCR processes?

Lastly, I’d like to add that I’ve found https://www.imagetotext.info/ does the best job at extracting text from images. However, since it doesn’t as well with Hebrew PDFs, I’ve been taking screenshots of the PDF pages and then extracting the text from the images.


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Re: Best App for Scanning and OCR for Hebrew Texts?
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2025, 07:46:45 AM »
I had the best experience with Abbyy
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Re: Best App for Scanning and OCR for Hebrew Texts?
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2025, 05:30:23 PM »
Try ChatGPT