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* 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
* 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://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
===alternatives===
* [http://accesstei.apexcovantage.com/ AccessTEI] is a service for members of the TEI for manual keying of texts which can handle ancient Greek
* [http://accesstei.apexcovantage.com/ AccessTEI] is a service for members of the TEI for manual keying of texts which can handle ancient Greek
* The [http://gamera.informatik.hsnr.de/ Gamera] toolkit for analysing and scanning complex texts includes some experiments with polytonic Greek


==External links==
==External links==

Revision as of 16:17, 15 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
  • The Gamera toolkit for analysing and scanning complex texts includes some experiments with polytonic Greek

alternatives

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

External links