OCR for ancient Greek
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- Federico Boschetti has been experimenting with adapting/training Google's OCR engine tesseract to ancient Greek texts: http://www.himeros.eu/ (related paper)
- The commercial OCR software Anagnostis (€585) can handle ancient Greek, though apparently poorly
- ABBYY FineReader can be made to work with ancient Greek with extensive training
- The Gamera toolkit for analysing and scanning complex texts includes some experiments with polytonic Greek
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alternatives
- AccessTEI is a service for members of the TEI for manual keying of texts which can handle ancient Greek
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External links
- Discussion of ancient Greek OCR software on Digital Classicist mailing list
- Deciding whether Optical Character Recognition is feasible, Simon Tanner (KDCS), 2004
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