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* [http://ancientgreekocr.org Ancient Greek OCR] provides downloads and instructions for OCR using the [http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr Tesseract] engine. Works on Windows, Linux, OSX & Android.
* [http://ancientgreekocr.org Ancient Greek OCR] provides downloads and instructions for OCR using the [http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr Tesseract] engine. Works on Windows, Linux, OSX & Android.
* [https://dcthree.github.io/antigrapheus/ Antigrapheus] allows you to use the Ancient Greek OCR training file above to OCR documents in a web browser, using Tesseract.js.
* Bruce Robertson has created "Rigaudon", "a complete suite of scripts, python code and data required for producing polytonic Greek OCR"
* Bruce Robertson has created "Rigaudon", "a complete suite of scripts, python code and data required for producing polytonic Greek OCR"
** [https://github.com/brobertson/rigaudon Rigaudon GitHub page]
** [https://github.com/brobertson/rigaudon Rigaudon GitHub page]

Revision as of 13:31, 12 July 2019

Tools and advice for the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of Ancient Greek

  • Ancient Greek OCR provides downloads and instructions for OCR using the Tesseract engine. Works on Windows, Linux, OSX & Android.
  • Antigrapheus allows you to use the Ancient Greek OCR training file above to OCR documents in a web browser, using Tesseract.js.
  • Bruce Robertson has created "Rigaudon", "a complete suite of scripts, python code and data required for producing polytonic Greek OCR"
  • The Gamera toolkit for analysing and scanning complex texts includes some experiments with polytonic Greek
  • Federico Boschetti did some earlier experimentation 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
  • 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