Many thanks for spotting that Laura, I've fixed the link now!
Nick
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 02:47:42PM +0100, Laura Löser wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> I believe on the site you linked (https://community.dur.ac.uk/nick.white/
> grctraining/desktop.html) there is a wrong link to the 7zip download. The
> installer can be downloaded here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Laura
>
>
> 2014-01-22 Nick White <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I made noises on here a few times some time ago about having
> 'trained' the Tesseract OCR engine to recognise Ancient Greek to a
> reasonable standard. That means that optical character recognition
> of Ancient Greek is possible on any platform which Tesseract can run
> on, which includes Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and Android.
>
> The Tesseract project doesn't include a graphical interface, however,
> which makes running it a bit challenging. There are various
> graphical interfaces available, though, so I wrote some (very
> skeletal) instructions on installing Tesseract with a graphical
> interface for OCR of Ancient Greek:
> https://community.dur.ac.uk/nick.white/grctraining/desktop.html
>
> If people are interested and want to give it a go, let me know how
> it goes, or if you have problems following the instructions.
>
> From March I will be working on significantly improving the OCR
> quality, and I also hope to make proper install bundles simple
> enough to render the above page unnecessary.
>
> But hopefully for now this will prove useful for people.
>
> Nick
>
>
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