OCR for ancient Greek

• 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
• The Gamera toolkit for analysing and scanning complex texts includes some experiments with polytonic Greek

External links

• Discussion of ancient Greek OCR software on Digital Classicist mailing list
• Deciding whether Optical Character Recognition is feasible, Simon Tanner (KDCS), 2004