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Recognita Reader 3.0
A multi-lingual Optical Character Recognition software for page processing, designed for visually impaired people.
Description of the product
Recognita Reader 3.0 is an omnifont, pre-trained, multi-lingual OCR software for page processing, designed for visually impaired people. The program runs under DOS environment and displays everything in character mode; the menu structure is simple. It can be started from a command line or in batch mode. Greyscale scanning with auto-threshold, auto-deskewing and auto image rotation give the maximum input image quality. Recognita Reader can take imput from over one hundred scanner models, and from image files in severals formats. The program automatically detects which page formats can be accepted by the scanner in a configuration. It can read both in portrait or landscape orientation. The program can decompose complex page layouts. It also automatically separates text and graphics and is able to handle tables and mulit-column text. Basic and user dictionaries can improve the recognition accuracy by correcting words during recognition, or can just flag suspect words. Recognized texts can be passed to a speech synthesizer for reading out loud or to a Braille writer for publishing purposes.
The company and the team
Since its inception in 1989, Recognita Corporation has been leading the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software field in Europe, and has gained international acknowledgment for its Recognita product family. Recognita has achieved its goal of producing highly cost-effective, easy-to-use OCR products for various system environments, and thus keeping pace with the demands of the most recent technological advances. The progress and quality of the work at Recognita is due mainly to the high proportion of professionnal people it has. The company is moderate in size, with a total of 60 employees. Almost half of the staff are developers, while the remainder deal with marketing, sales, manufacturing and product support. The character recognition module built in the Reader program, which is the same as that of in the Windows version developed for sighted people, is the result of the work of ten to twelve developer engineers, while the user interface specially designed for blind people has been made by our visually impaired colleague, with the help of two sighted engineers.
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Recognita Corporation |
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György Reisch |
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