Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 61.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 07:10:21 +0100
From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: 15.057 OCR for 17C Latin texts?
We have had no success using OCR on hand-printed texts. The error rate is
so great that it is in fact cheaper and far more accurate to re-key them.
If you will give me a ring at the number below (we're neighbors!), I can
give you more details.
Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
(510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Humanist Discussion Group wrote:
>
> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 57.
> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
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> Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 06:58:10 +0100
> From: Michael John Gorman <mgorman@stanford.edu>
> >
> I am searching for an OCR program that can deal with works in Latin
> printed in the seventeenth century. I would also be interested in any
> systematic tests that have been done to rate the success different OCR
> programs on comparable materials.
> Best wishes,
> Michael John Gorman
>
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> Program in Science, Technology and Society
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> Stanford University
> Stanford, CA 94305-2120
> Phone: 650-723-6817
> Fax: 650-725-5389
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