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==How this work ?==
 
* picture need to be contrasted
* OCR programs read the picture and with forms librairies, detect the characters in order to make some correspond the form to the awaited character
* dictionnaries will be used for minimized errors. They make comparison between existing words and your result.
* Some programs allow bold, italic or custom fonts size.
 
==Using into GRAMPS==
 
There is not a lot of OCR open sources programs.
Intelligent Word Recognition (IWR), Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) for written certificates are hight level. They are used on financial, historical sectors. Some programs may be used as third party of GRAMPS.
* [http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ Tesseract] may be a good solution for english reader but it currently only recognizes US-ASCII characters ...
* [http://www.geocities.com/claraocr/ claraocr] seems to be able to learn but I do not find any documentation.
* [http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ GOCR/JOCR] may generate a custom database characters with:

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