OCR Software with Hebrew / Yiddish Language Support

Shop desktop, server and OCR data capture solutions that have Hebrew / Yiddish language recognition capabilities.

When you scan a document that has text or numeric data on it, you are able to read and understand what is written in the scanned image. However, to a computer, the resulting image file is just as meaningless an assortment of pixels as a landscape photo. In order to transform this information into an editable format that you can search through, copy, and modify without retyping it manually, you will need the an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.

There is a wide variety of OCR software available. While they all share the ability to convert images of machine printed (not handwritten) text or numbers into an editable format, the various software often have different features, accuracy, prices, and language options.

, which gives an ability to convert Hebrew scripts to editable formats, is a relatively new option that many OCR software still do not support it out of the box. ReadIRIS was the first major OCR application to offer support for Hebrew on the PC platform. More recently, ABBYY FineReader has introduced an option for in version 11. ABBYY FineReader Server had separate language pack to add Hebrew OCR option. But since April of 2020 Hebrew language pack is included in ABBYY FineReader Server .

ABBYY also offer Hebrew OCR options in their enterprise server OCR solutions, and FineReader Server. In this cases support for Hebrew OCR is optional, so when purchasing be sure to select the correct version. The links below will take you directly to versions that support Hebrew OCR. Lighter versions of IRIS ReadIRIS like ReadIRIS PDF or ReadIRIS PDF for Mac do not support Hebrew scripts.

Yiddish texts require Yiddish vocabularies for OCR to work. And Abbyy is your only choice as . ABBYY FineReader or ABBYY FineReader for Mac are your best choices to work with Yiddish texts.

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