[B-Greek] Publicly available Greek lexicon?

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Wed Mar 23 11:42:31 EDT 2011


On Mar 23, 2011, at 10:57 AM, peter pankonin wrote:

> 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.

It's good to have that constated; it's clear that these mechanical digitization
programs employed by producers of these digitized versions is altogether
useless for texts not in the same font.

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






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