Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 264.
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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 08:15:32 +0100
From: "Arianna Ciula" <ciula@media.unisi.it>
Subject: Re: 16.262 OCRing the OLD
I am a PHD student in book sciences at the University of Siena. I've worked
a bit on OCR field before my degree on Communication Sciences. The
experimentations we did at the ILC (Computational Linguistics Institute) of
CNR in Pisa with professor Andrea Bozzi was focused on old (around
1600)printed books automatic recogniton with the help of a linguistic module
for Latin. Tha name of the new software was LAperLA (Lettore automatico per
libri anctichi).
The system is trainable and may be it could be adapted to your research
problems.
Sincerly,
Arianna Ciula
Dipartimento Documentazione e Tradizioni Culturali
Universit degli studi di Siena - Italy
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> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 262.
> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:06:20 +0100
> From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
> Subject: OCRing the OLD
>
> This in response to Humanist 16.259. Putting aside the legality of
scanning
> the Oxford Latin Dictionary (currently very much in print, and not cheap),
> some experiments I did years ago with pages of the Dictionary suggest that
> a great deal of proofreading and correction would be required. There are
> three columns per page, which when I experimented with the scanning
> required manual definition; things may have improved with the software
> since then in that regard. A spelling dictionary, if one could be located,
> would not help with the numerous abbreviations. The size of type for
> quotations and references is very small. Overall it looks to me like a
> manual-entry job.
>
> Unfortunately the OLD was, as I recall being told, the last book or major
> reference book for which OUP used metal plates. So there are no tapes or
> other digital storage media to be accessed. My contact at the Press said
it
> would welcome a digitized version for research purposes -- as would
> thousands of scholars, no doubt. Perhaps someone here knows whether the
> Press has begun or is contemplating a digitization project with the OLD?
>
> There is of course the Louis & Short provided online by Perseus,
> www.perseus.tufts.edu.
>
> Yours,
> WM
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