On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:05:23AM +0200, Aaron wrote: > On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 06:22, Eli Marmor wrote: > > Eli Marmor wrote: [snip] > > Oops. > > I didn't see the need for Hebrew. > > I think that at least in (1) and (2), Hebrew is not built in.
Although not builtin, people reported some degree of success with clara. > > So you will either have to add it, or to switch to a commercial > > solution. > > Add it?? > > There are mainly 2 solutions, both for Windows: > > Ligature (the most professional one), I saw 1800 dollars on the net. and Kotev I > > will look (the cheaper). I never worked with any of them, but I am sure I saw cheaper things in stores. IIRC, simpler versions of Ligature. > > Anyway, adding Hebrew is not a mission impossible. > > You need 2 things for that: > > > > 1. To teach the engine - usually it's easy to teach it, and even > > doesn't require any patch. > > 2. To make some minor patches so right-to-left will be supported > > instead of right-to-left. You must be a programmer for this. I believe one run of bidiv will do most of the work. > > > > If you want to support mixed directional texts (Hebrew + Latin and/or > > digits), it is going to be harder. > > My project is this. > I have notated songs with hebrew lyrics I can't type hebrew to save my > life and theres tons of text. > > there is also lots of information in hebrew on the songs. I actually > need them translated but thats another issue. > > I will hardly have any mixed stuff. > OK, that's a totally different story :-) I don't believe any OCR will give good results without quite a lot of both tuning and manual work for such things. And if you also want to OCR the notes, it's going to be much harder. > So where can I find out how to get claris or illuminator to see hebrew?? clara, not claris. There was a thread on whatsup about that, without too many details. I suggest that you simply install it and play with it for a few hours - you'll get the feeling for what it can and can't do. -- Didi > Thanks > Aaron > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
