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* Federico Boschetti has been experimenting with adapting/training Google's OCR engine [http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ tesseract] to ancient Greek texts: http://www.himeros.eu/ ([http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/~ababeu/ecdl2009-preprint.pdf related paper])
* The commercial OCR software [http://www.ideatech-online.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=27 Anagnostis] (€585) can handle ancient Greek, though apparently poorly
* [http://finereader.abbyy.com/ ABBYY FineReader] can be made to work with ancient Greek with extensive training
* [http://accesstei.apexcovantage.com/ AccessTEI] is a service for members of the TEI for manual keying of texts which can handle ancient Greek
 
==External links==
* [https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind1005&L=DIGITALCLASSICIST&F=&S=&P=2180 Discussion of ancient Greek OCR software on Digital Classicist mailing list]


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Revision as of 22:52, 3 June 2010

  • 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
  • AccessTEI is a service for members of the TEI for manual keying of texts which can handle ancient Greek

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