Sylfaen Font?

[Alix Hartman]

I'm use FineReader Pro to scan and convert forms. Often, when I import the
OCR read material into MSWord, the font is shown as "Sylfaen". Does anybody
know what font that is? It's a san serif.

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[David Glenn [MS]]

Hi Alix,

I'm not sure what types of materials you are scanning, but if there are
marks on the pages or if it's not perfectly aligned the OCR software *may*
be misinterpreting the letters and assuming you are needing some diacritical
marks, etc. The following info is taken from the font file itself. "Sylfaen
was designed for Microsoft in 1998 by John Hudson and W. Ross Mills of Tiro
Typeworks, and Geraldine Wade of Monotype Typography. Sylfaen is a Welsh
word meaning "foundation"; an apt name since the font stemmed from research
into the typographic requirements of many different scripts and languages.

This version of Sylfaen supports the WGL4.0 character set, for Pan-European
language coverage. In addition to Latin, Greek and Cyrillic letterforms, the
font contains the characters necessary for support of the Armenian and
Georgian languages."

It could also be a setting in Word or the OCR software. I'm not much help
there since I don't use it or know your setup.

Hope this info on Sylfaen is helpful,

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[Alix Hartman]

Thanks, David, for your answer. I don't have that font on my system. But
it does look like the FR interface wants me to use it.

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