Most accurate open-source OCR for Japanese?

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Nicolas Raoul picture Nicolas Raoul · Apr 1, 2010 · Viewed 28.2k times · Source

From your experience, what is the most accurate open-source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) library/software to read Japanese text?

I just tried nhocr, its mistake rate is over 2% even on an extremely clean high-definition document.

Answer

Peter picture Peter · Apr 13, 2010

Based on the lack of answers it sounds like nhocr IS the most accurate open-source OCR for Japanese.

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