>Can anyone help with this?
>I am told that there is Greek OCR software out there,
>and I'd bet someone on this list knows how...
>Rgds
>Steven
Recently this appeared on the classics list. I have not checked out the
web site, but it looks as if it might be a useful tool. Steven Willett
is a very informed classicist teaching in Japan.
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>On 31 Aug 98, at 18:13, TonyProst@aol.com wrote:
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>> does anyone know of any OCR software, and spell checkers for greek?
>>
>> Tony Prost
>>
>
>A small Belgian company called I.R.I.S. makes a superb pen-
>sized hand scanner with the best OCR software I've ever seen.
>It scans line-by-line at over 100 characters/second and pastes
>the text directly and almost instantly into any active application
>that can accept text. The pen is simple and foolproof, drawing
>power from the keyboard or an external keyboard/mouse port
>via adaptors. It also has a battery pack good for one hour and
>can take a 6-volt 500mA external power supply. More
>importantly, the OCR software comes with all European
>languages, including Modern Greek. I've used it with MG as
>well as Russian, German and English this summer to scan
>excerpts from books and articles. Pack your laptop to the
>library, set up on a vacant desk with an outlet and scan while
>reading. The IRISpen is much faster than making notes by
>hand or typing, and can also scan images into the clipboard for
>pasting. It even scans tables of numbers into spreadsheet
>tables.
>
>All the character fonts come with a default set of characters
>and additional symbols that can be activated for OCR. The
>Greek font works perfectly, but can only recognize those
>diacritics common in MG.
>
>For spelling, one needs the same company's flatbed scanner
>software, called Readiris, now in version 3.9. It supports 26
>European languages, including MG. Each language has a
>lexicon of 100,000 thousand words.
>
>The pen and software sell for $249. Both Windows and
>Macintosh software are included. For further technical specs
>see their web page at
>
>http://www.irislink.com
>
>
>
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