From: Karie Masterson <happyphilologist AT gmail.com>
Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Query about Davidson's Analytical Lexicon
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 15:19:09 -0700
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:
>> >> 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.
>> >> 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. > > 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.
>> >> Perhaps Logos or similar has a digitised version? > > 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).
>> >> John Leake > > Karl W. Randolph.