Re: OCR software to read "copperplate" handwriting?

John Bennett wrote:
> I am shortly hoping to embark on the task of transcribing a large 1872
> diary, written in neat copperplate style handwriting.  Is there any
> software out there that will read (at least maybe some of) it by
> scanning/OCR?

If it's very neat, OCR might work, but there will still be a lot of 
errors to correct.  I think you'd get fewer errors and be almost as
fast by getting the cheapest version of Dragon Naturally Speaking
and just reading the thing into the microphone.

-- 
Wes Groleau

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