[B-Greek] Scanning Funk's Grammar
George F. Somsel
gfsomsel at juno.com
Mon Jun 7 16:37:06 EDT 2004
Perhaps it would be better to divide the task and send photocopies of the
appropriate sections to those participating for manual entry. Some
standards regarding font, font size, margins, etc. would need to be
established.
gfsomsel
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On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 15:40:15 -0400 bgreek at ntresources.com writes:
> I hope those involved in scanning realize what it takes to OCR
> *Greek*
> text..., esp. mixed English & Greek text.... Perhaps there is
> software that
> will do so, but I don't know of any. If that assumption is correct,
> realize
> that a scan will produce readable text of only the English portions.
> That
> leaves a *LOT* of manual entry of Greek text, often in complex
> formatting.
> And I would *hope* that this would be done in Unicode so as to be
> viable in
> future years. All the incompatible legacy encodings of the dozens of
> Greek
> fonts in use over the past 20 or more years has left us with a royal
> mess.
>
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> Rodney J. Decker, Th.D., Assoc. Professor/NT
> Baptist Bible Seminary, Clarks Summit, PA, USA
> URL: www.NTResources.com
> PURL: purl.oclc.org/NT_Resources/
> Email: <rdecker> at <NTResources.com>
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ross J Purdy
> > [mailto:rossjpurdy.at.netwurx.net at bgreek.at.ntresources.com]
> > Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 3:43 PM
> > To: B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> > Cc: Carl W. Conrad
> > Subject: [B-Greek] Scanning Funk's Grammar
> >
> > Carl wrote:
> >
> > >If need be I can supply the 3-volume textbook (coming apart
> > with that
> > >old-time cheap binding but all pages intact individually)
> > but I don't
> > >have a copy of the workbook. I suspect that the books would
> > have to be
> > >disassembled for careful scanning.
> >
> > I have purchased a new scanner and I have OmniPage Pro 14
> > scanning software.
> > If you send me your copy, I can get busy scanning right away!
> > What do you say?
> >
> > In Christ,
> > Ross Purdy
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