Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Ken Penner <kpenner AT stfx.ca>]

The main problem was with the OCR, not the encoding. I’ve OCR’ed it with ABBYY FineReader 10 (which handles Hebrew consonants), and uploaded it to https://www.box.com/s/xgfz4ek5uteybwl2dzee

 

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From: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of John Leake
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 7:32 PM
To: K Randolph
Cc: B-Hebrew
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Query about Davidson's Analytical Lexicon

 

I'm not convinced, Karl, I think the Hebrew is gibberish. Consistent gibberish and (due to the sort of digitisation as part of a page layout, well-ordered gibberish), but gibberish. The people who do the archive.org digitisation don't really seem to pay much attention to language. They don't scan even Latin  with any attempt to treat it as Latin, and Greek too becomes nonsense. But the source image files are there if someone has good digitisation software.

 

Let's be grateful, though, that the stuff is there at all!

 

John
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ان صاحب حياة هانئة لا يدونها انما يحياها

He who has a comfortable life doesn't write about it - he lives it

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On 7 Jun 2013, at 22:48, K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com> wrote:

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.