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* [http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ Tesseract] is an ongoing Google open source project for OCR. | |||
* The [http://gamera.informatik.hsnr.de/ Gamera] toolkit for analysing and scanning complex texts includes some experiments with polytonic Greek | |||
* Bruce Robertson reports on some preliminary results of a survey of techniques: http://www.heml.org/RobertsonGreekOCR/ | * Bruce Robertson reports on some preliminary results of a survey of techniques: http://www.heml.org/RobertsonGreekOCR/ | ||
* 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]) | * 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 | * 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 | ||
* 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. | * 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. | ||
Revision as of 17:38, 3 August 2012
- Tesseract is an ongoing Google open source project for OCR.
- The Gamera toolkit for analysing and scanning complex texts includes some experiments with polytonic Greek
- Bruce Robertson reports on some preliminary results of a survey of techniques: http://www.heml.org/RobertsonGreekOCR/
- 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
- 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