No, other than it is possible to do so:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/about-ocr-international-issues-HP003081238.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/about-ocr-international-issues-HP003081238.aspx
Mike Beccaria
Systems Librarian
Head of Digital Initiative
Paul Smith's College
518.327.6376
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of stuart yeates
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 4:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Free/Open OCR solutions?
Michael Beccaria wrote:
> Andrew,
> If you have MS Office, Microsoft has an OCR engine built in. I used it
> to OCR some college yearbooks at MPOW. It's not ABBYY but it works
> pretty well! It's scriptable using VBScript or your MS language of
> choice.
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa167607(office.11).aspx
> Notice the "OCR" method in the document.
Could someone comment on the efficacy of this OCR on languages with
non-latin characters?
cheers
stuart
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Stuart Yeates
http://www.nzetc.org/ New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ Institutional Repository
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