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* [http://finereader.abbyy.com/ ABBYY FineReader] can be made to work with ancient Greek with extensive training | * [http://finereader.abbyy.com/ ABBYY FineReader] can be made to work with ancient Greek with extensive training | ||
* The [http://gamera.informatik.hsnr.de/ Gamera] toolkit for analysing and scanning complex texts includes some experiments with polytonic Greek | * The [http://gamera.informatik.hsnr.de/ Gamera] toolkit for analysing and scanning complex texts includes some experiments with polytonic Greek | ||
* Google Docs now allows you to have it do [http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/02/optical-character-recognition-ocr-in-34.html OCR on uploaded documents in a variety of languages], and you can get some results by specifying "Greek" and uploading a PDF (images seem not to work). Quality is about on the level of Google Books OCR of printed ancient Greek. | |||
===alternatives=== | ===alternatives=== | ||
Revision as of 18:05, 1 March 2011
- 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
- Google Docs now allows you to have it do OCR on uploaded documents in a variety of languages, and you can get some results by specifying "Greek" and uploading a PDF (images seem not to work). Quality is about on the level of Google Books OCR of printed ancient Greek.
alternatives
- AccessTEI is a service for members of the TEI for manual keying of texts which can handle ancient Greek