I’ve said this before, but Abby FineReader is the best 70 Euros I have ever spent on software and proof that the stuff built in Russia is much better than its American rivals. I am using it this afternoon to scan in some 30 year old xeroxes of typewritten Swedish court documents, about as grim a test of OCR as I can imagine. It went off and got a Swedish dictionary for me and then read, with very little fuss, a page that looks like this:
The Swedish-speaking readers may proceed to sprain their brains by clicking on that to read it at full size. It is part of the story of a real changeling.
I’m getting a 404 on that changeling link, Andrew.
That’s because I’m an idiot. It should work now.