ABBYY FineReader XIX - OCR software for Fraktur
ABBYY FineReader XIX is a special version of the award-winning FineReader Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software for recognising "fraktur" or "black letter" texts from the period between 1800 and 1938. It is designed to convert scans of old documents, books, and papers into text for the purpose of digital archiving and publishing, and it is the first omnifont OCR software for Fraktur.
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ABBYY FineReader XIX is the first omnifont OCR for Fraktur, giving users a solution for scanning and converting old documents with minimal training and dictionary work. This was achieved by combining extremely intelligent technology with dedicated linguistic study:
OCR systems work by analysing a text image and making a hypothesis about which letter or word an image represents. The hypotheses are analysed in context and verified by use of sophisticated OCR dictionaries made up of Language Models (LMs). Language Models (LM) are computer databases that describe the vocabulary of a language. The problem is that modern OCR systems do not have LMs for older text fonts and older text spellings. The solution for Fraktur text recognition was achieved through the development of OCR dictionaries specifically for this time period. Special language models were created for five European languages.