Bogdan-Florin:
Since your need is urgent and most folks are still in Boston at the ARMA
show, I'll try to help.
1) In my consulting, I call anything encoded electronically - whether it
is digital or analog, a text document or an A/V stream -- an electronic
document. If others use a different definition, well, we argue about
what is a document or record also.
2) In my experience, the better OCR packages handle Latin alphabet
variations. They are set to focus on a specific character set, so that
they can do a decent job. What sort of characters are you trying to
recognize?
I wish I had a name for a package I knew handled German, but I haven't
had the need to explore this. My guess is that if I went into a
computer store in Germany, I'd find several on the shelf.
Good Luck on your search.
Bernard Chester
IMERGE Consulting
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Dear all,
I have to questions, as a help crying:-))
1. Why do we call documents processed by computer "electronic docs"? I
mean, of course they are created by electronic machins, but thus audio
tapes are also electronic docs. The medium for "computer created docs"
is not longer only "electronic", because CD, DVD are optical medium. Am
I right? And if I am, how could they be caled?
2. Do you have any information about an OCR software, which is able to
recognize texts written with peculiar characters (German with Fraktur
characters, for instance)?
Any assistance will be appreciate.
Yrs.,
Bogdan-Florin POPOVICI
archivist
Brasov - ROMANIA
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