Try Abbyy Fine Reader. It recognises almost a thousand languages: and I was
pleasantly surprised to find that my vernacular language, Shona, which is
spoken only here in Zimbabwe and nowhere else, is there. So when I scan a
page, I can scan any English or Shona page without any problem. The latest
version version 10 is the one I'm using.
Greek and other European languages shouldn't be a problem even when they are
on one page: for example, you have a document with English on the first five
lines and Greek on the next three, then English the rest of the document.
Simply scan the document using a chosen default language: then in the Editor
of Abbyy Fine Reader, You will have to correctly identify blocks of text
that correspond with the given language.
I don't know whether this ansers your query. If it doesn't, I trust someone
else may do it better.
Cheers,
Ishe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eleni Vamvakari" <magkis...@gmail.com>
To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 7:45 PM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] Scanning and Reading in Greek with XP
As I said in the subject, this is a Windows question, since I don't
have a Greek synth for DOS and doubt this would even be possible.
I have some books with Greek and English on the same page. When I
try to scan the pages with Cicero, I can only scan one language at a
time. So if I'm on English, the Greek words won't come out properly
and vise versa. I don't have the latest version of Cicero so this
problem may have already been addressed. If not, then does anyone
know of a package for XP that can do this? I've heard of SCAN2TEXT,
but am not sure if it can handle two languages at once. I'd
especially be interested in a program that could scan things in the
polytonic system, as I'm intending on learning Katharevousa at some
point and still need the system to read older texts in Dimotiki.
On a related note, I'd be eternally grateful if someone could tell
me of a synthesizer that can properly read polytonic Greek. ESpeak in
NVDA has a wonderful modern Greek version that I use every day for
self-taught lessons and general reading, even in English. But it
doesn't seem to be able to read the older accents. Whenever I come
across a text with them, it mispronounces the words and acts as if
there's nothing there whenever I review the letters with the accents
on them. But it works fine with the regular tonos... It has an
Ancient Greek setting as well, but I need modern, and in any case, the
ancient one won't let me review the letters in a word at all without
acting strangely. Can the Apollo, assuming that I could even find
one, be used for this purpose? I don't think Hal chas that ability
but have to try it and see.
Thanks,
Eleni
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