> 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.
>

That is how I got my OCR software as well but I have found a package that is
supposed to be able to be trained to recognize icelandic characters while
scanning English texts. It's the upgrade version of the software I have Text
Bridge Classic. I am sending in my registration so I can get it at the
upgrade price. The software is called Text Bridge Pro Millennium. I plan on
getting it as soon as my registration goes in. You can check it out here:
http://www.digitalriver.com/dr/v2/ec_MAIN.Entry10?SP=10023&PN=1&V1=160950&xid
=19198&DSP=&CUR=840&CACHE_ID=0

> 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
>

yeh that is the same problem with mine. What I had planned on doing was
getting as many people to team up on it as possible. I have three people
counting myself that can start on it right now. What I was thinking is that
each person could take a letter. Like one person do all the words beginning
with "a" and another person do all the words beginning with "b" and so on.
If we could get several people working on it like that, either typing it or
proofreading OCR scans, we could knock out in pretty quick and I'll post it
at my site as it get's done along with an index to make it easier to find the
words. I could convert the tiff's to .gif files so no one would have a
problem viewing the graphics. I'm an experienced web and graphics designer
so it's no problem for me to do it. I would be willing to co-ordinate the
project. I can also make a version for the list web site as well, since Sean
(the person who scanned the tiffs) doesn't mind me posting it at my site, I
am sure he wouldn't mind a copy being at the Norse Course web site as well.
Perhaps we could make this a list project?

What do you think? Óskar? Haukur? My fellow students?

-Svanni