FYI, tesseract works with many languages, and more than one at the same time.
From [1]:
-l lang
The language to use. If none is specified, English is assumed.
Multiple languages may be specified, separated by plus characters.
Tesseract uses 3-character ISO 639-2 language codes. (See
LANGUAGES)
Additional languages must be installed manually, if I'm not wrong.
Stefano
[1] http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/en/man1/tesseract.1.html
> On 18 apr 2016, at 16:51, Rachel Gravel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Greetings,
>
> Might anyone have some recommendations on good OCR software that is either
> relatively cheap or free? We're looking to OCR some files for a digital
> collection (platform still to be determined...) and wonder if there's a
> more robust tool than Acrobat Pro that won't cost an arm and a leg.
>
> Many thanks in advance for your expertise!
>
> Cheers,
> Rachel
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