Why not use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software?
First, no such software is distributed freely, and the purchase of usage licenses for all the project’s volunteers would require a large sum of money. The project does not at present have external funding, and all the time and work contributed to it is that of volunteers. In addition, according to research undertaken by Asaf Bartov, there is today no OCR software supporting Hebrew with diacritics properly. Existing software gets “confused” by diacritics, making it useless for the transcription of poetry. We will happily hear of creative suggestions on this matter.
Related Questions
- Many of the materials in our collection are typewritten. Can we use optical character recognition (OCR) software to create rough transcripts of these materials?
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- Can forms that are scanned through optical character recognition (OCR) software be printed?
