[B-Greek] Publicly available Greek lexicon?

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Wed Mar 23 10:17:41 EDT 2011


On Mar 23, 2011, at 10:13 AM, peter pankonin wrote:

> <sigh> They offer an epub version of Souter but the OCR substituted
> random latin letters for all the Greek characters so it's mostly
> useless. This seems to be the standard MO. Why bother making a text
> version if most of the characters in a work are incorrect?

I don't think it's "random" Latin letters; it's the result of an OCR scan
with a scanner that doesn't recognize Greek fonts. Unless a digitized
version of an old work with Greek font is done with an OCR program
recognizing Greek fonts, you're better off relying on a PDF file --
but it's very clumsy working with an unindexed huge PDF file.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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