 |
 |
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 > >