You can OCR if you're using a Latin script with few if any accent marks. Depending on your OCR engine, I suppose you could do Cyrillic too. Other scripts, not

You can OCR if you're using a Latin script with few if any accent marks. Depending on your OCR engine, I suppose you could do Cyrillic too. Other scripts, not so much. (And yes, I'm a computational linguist, so we deal with non-Roman scripts all the time, particularly Arabic script. But I suppose that's not a problem for most people here :-).) There might be some Latin script fonts that cause problems, but I haven't looked into that very much--I do recall we had problems with an italic font.