[B-Greek] Publicly available Greek lexicon?

peter pankonin peter.pankonin at gmail.com
Wed Mar 23 10:57:44 EDT 2011


Perhaps it isn't random, but it certainly appears that way. For
example, at page 156-157 in Souter, the  mu is replaced with any one
of: j, f, ), |, p, \

(Even the English word "with" (in italics) was converted to zvi//i...)

If the OCR had used the same character in place of the μ, one could
perhaps use search and replace to correct the document. Perhaps it
would be easier to grab the page scans and run them through a better
OCR program.


On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:

> 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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