Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Karie Masterson <happyphilologist AT gmail.com>]

On Friday, June 7, 2013, K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com> wrote:
> John:
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:30 PM, John Leake <jesleake AT yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>> Which leads me to another question - is there any scanning software that scans pointed Hebrew to any approximation of accuracy? 

I have tried both omnipage and ligature software but neither recognizes the Hebrew vowels. I also would be very interested to know if there is OCR software which does recognize the vowels.





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>> As for the Davidson, the OCR will almost certainly only have been set for English. You'd have to type the Hebrew in manually if you wanted a coded text.
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> The gibberish doesn’t appear to be problems with OCR, rather incompatible encoding. I’ve worked with OCR, and have seen when it messes up, but this doesn’t look like OCR mess-up. 
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>> Perhaps Logos or similar has a digitised version?
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> While the original is out of copyright, the digitization may be under copyright (just like Bach’s music is out of copyright, but a particular performance can still be under copyright).
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>> John Leake
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> Karl W. Randolph.