sum ocr software couple weeks back posted query ocr software mac trainable enough useful linguist scanning latin ipa based non english texts thanks jakob dempsey sarah rilling michael betsch andrew arefiev marc fryd daniel loehr responses mac world appears frontrunner area widelyavailable omnipage programme caere corporation http www caere com info apparently trainable although one respondent expressed doubts able train handle single special font also mention first sales rep talked previously omnipage seemed think might trouble combinations letters diacrits typical ipa based alphabets however publicity literature web site seems imply trained recognize combinations separate characters last sales rep talked seemed think doubt omnipage could job jakob dempsey also mentioned expensive kurzweil product mac nt heard anything also got two responses mentioned windows based applications highly trainable one german product called optopus made german company called makrolog wiesbaden exclusively trainable needs trained scratch configured alphabet like russian company called bit software www bitsoft ru programme called finereader addition wide range set alphabets langauges using latin cyrillic report sucessfully trained recognize icelandic tibetan fonts david beck david beck department linguistics sixth floor robarts library 130 st george st university toronto toronto ontario m5s 3h1 canada email dbeck chass utoronto ca phone 416 9784029 416 9232394 home fax 416 9712688