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What OCR programs and resources are available to scan Hebrew/Yiddish text?

One program per answer please, and please include the following:

  • Price
  • Link to download or purchase site
  • Does it work with Hebrew and English text on the same page?
  • Can it handle trop and vowel signs?
  • How accurate is it?
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I think ABBYY FineReader is the leading product in this category, though I don't know more details about it. There are also other programs, such as Ligature and readIRIS. There's some free programs too such as qhocr. You can check the details of these programs and try their free downloads. Otherwise, I would assume Bar-Ilan, HebrewBooks and Otzar haChochma would know more about this.

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