I wrote:

>>Quick question - do you have access to OCR (optical character recognition)
>>software? If not, I would certainly be willing to take the TIFF files, run
>>them through the OCR I have, and send them back. They would then have to
>>be heavily edited, as OCR tends to be about 90-95% accurate in general
>>(I've found it to be less accurate for vowels with accents and umlauts,
>>though), but at least it's a bit easier than typing in the whole book.

Svanni replied:

>I do have a "light" version but it doesn't recognize icelandic characters so
>it would not be much good. They would have to be proof read which I would
>work on but I suppose that would be quicker than typing them up. The tiff's
>are also two columns, how does your program do with columns?

The software I have came with the scanner and is nothing spectacular. I've
been searching for decent OCR software which suits at least most of my
needs for a year or so, to no avail. If Adobe would get back to me
regarding the OCR in Acrobat, I may end up buying that both for OCR and for
writing PDF files, but they've been incredibly unresponsive.

At any rate, it sounds like our software is at about the same level - on
mine any á, é or ó is recognised as "6", for example. I was offering in
case you didn't have any, as even editing shoddy OCR output is easier than
typing in a book.

-Selv

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