[B-Greek] Re: Scanning Funk's Grammar
Curtis Hinson
curtis at curtishinson.com
Tue Jun 8 15:59:10 EDT 2004
A commercial scanning service might be of help. I understand they have
high-speed scanners that require the spine to be removed from the book, and
such a service ought to be able to handle major languages I would think.
Bless the Name
Curtis Hinson
Abilene Christian University
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To: Ross J Purdy
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Subject: [B-Greek] Re: Scanning Funk's Grammar
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
WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
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