>Can anyone help with this? >I am told that there is Greek OCR software out there, >and I'd bet someone on this list knows how... >Rgds >Steven Recently this appeared on the classics list. I have not checked out the web site, but it looks as if it might be a useful tool. Steven Willett is a very informed classicist teaching in Japan. Geneva>Sender: CLASSICS-owner@u.washington.edu >Precedence: bulk >From: "Steven J. Willett" < >To: classics@u.washington.edu >Subject: Re: Greek OCR >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-pmrqc: 1 >Status: > >On 31 Aug 98, at 18:13, TonyProst@aol.com wrote: > >> does anyone know of any OCR software, and spell checkers for greek? >> >> Tony Prost >> > >A small Belgian company called I.R.I.S. makes a superb pen- >sized hand scanner with the best OCR software I've ever seen. >It scans line-by-line at over 100 characters/second and pastes >the text directly and almost instantly into any active application >that can accept text. The pen is simple and foolproof, drawing >power from the keyboard or an external keyboard/mouse port >via adaptors. It also has a battery pack good for one hour and >can take a 6-volt 500mA external power supply. More >importantly, the OCR software comes with all European >languages, including Modern Greek. I've used it with MG as >well as Russian, German and English this summer to scan >excerpts from books and articles. Pack your laptop to the >library, set up on a vacant desk with an outlet and scan while >reading. The IRISpen is much faster than making notes by >hand or typing, and can also scan images into the clipboard for >pasting. It even scans tables of numbers into spreadsheet >tables. > >All the character fonts come with a default set of characters >and additional symbols that can be activated for OCR. The >Greek font works perfectly, but can only recognize those >diacritics common in MG. > >For spelling, one needs the same company's flatbed scanner >software, called Readiris, now in version 3.9. It supports 26 >European languages, including MG. Each language has a >lexicon of 100,000 thousand words. > >The pen and software sell for $249. Both Windows and >Macintosh software are included. For further technical specs >see their web page at > >http://www.irislink.com > > > >================================================ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Edgar Krentz Acting Dean, Fall Quarter 1998 Professor of New Testament Emeritus Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago 1100 E. 55th Street Chicago, IL 60615 USA 773-256-0752 e-mail:FFFF,0000,0000 ekrentz@lstc.edu (Office) FFFF,0000,0000emkrentz@mcs.net (Home) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --- B-Greek home page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/bgreek You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu] To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-b-greek-329W@franklin.oit.unc.edu To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu