{"id":1509,"date":"2005-04-16T18:22:42","date_gmt":"2005-04-16T22:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2005-04-16T18:22:42","modified_gmt":"2005-04-16T22:22:42","slug":"an-unusual-software-plug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1509","title":{"rendered":"An unusual software plug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said this before, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abbyy.com\/finereader_ocr\/\">Abby FineReader<\/a> 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 <span class=\"caps\">OCR <\/span>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:<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/helmintholog\/archives\/images\/aminoff.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/helmintholog\/archives\/images\/aminoff.html','popup','width=600,height=722,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/helmintholog\/archives\/images\/aminoff-thumb.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darwinwars.com\/troll\/archives\/2003_07.html\">changeling.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1509\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1509\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}