[B-Greek] Re: Scanning Funk's Grammar

George F. Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Tue Jun 8 16:45:23 EDT 2004


But polytonic Greek probably does not qualify as a major language --
modern Greek, maybe.  Personally, I take the Smith-Barney approach -- "We
[do it] the old fashioned way"  -- scan it, read it, enter it by hand.

gfsomsel
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On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 14:59:10 -0500 "Curtis Hinson"
<curtis at curtishinson.com> writes:
> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Carl W. 
> Conrad
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 5:17 AM
> To: Ross J Purdy
> Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> 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
>  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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