[B-Greek] Re: Scanning Funk's Grammar
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Jun 8 06:17:06 EDT 2004
At 10:06 PM -0500 6/7/04, Ross J Purdy wrote:
>OmniPage will recognise the Greek along with the English. It does take some
>work to "train" the OCR software to do it though. One thing that makes a
>difference is to manually draw text zones on each page, otherwise it draws
>several zones around disconnected text and the accuracy seems to diminish. I
>have used e-Sword to paste in greek with the accents etc. using the byz GNT.
>Then I reproof the page and tell it to recognise the greek and add it to the
>user dictionary. As I progress, the accuracy improves. The english comes out
>in Times New Roman and the Greek in TITUS Cyberbit Basic which are both
>unicode I believe. Anyways, I can open it up in WordPerfect and do a search
>and replace of the fonts used and convert it to any desired font! It takes
>work but it can be done.
On the basis of what's been said, I think I'd be willing to "sacrifice" my
copy of the 3-volume Funk textbook--it is badly bound and undoubtedly the
pages will need to be removed completely from the binding and
reassembled/rebound later. I don't have a copy of the McGaughey workbook,
but presumably one could be procured. The Greek font of the Funk textbook
is distinctive--I think it may be the old IBM "selectric"; whether that
would make the OCR work on it more difficult I don't know.
I haven't corresponded with Char Matejovsky at Westar Institute since
before Christmas, but one thing she's indicated is that the text must be in
Unicode and preferably in Westar's own Unicode font which she will supply
(evidently its set of symbols and diacriticals includes some important
items and has a couple differences in keyboard input from the major
international standard). We would need to be sure that we are operating
within Westar's guidelines since they hold the copyright (which IS still in
effect).
What I would really prefer is for someone to step forward and volunteer to
coordinate this project in cooperation with Westar; it may well be, as has
been suggested, that several persons need to be involved in proofreading,
perhaps in the keying-in of the Greek. Much as I am eager and ready to do a
part in this project, I don't want to coordinate it. Anybody have the time
and willingness to do that?
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
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