4.0981 Queries: Slavic OCR; Word/WP Mac/dos xfer;... (6/113)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 5 Feb 91 15:06:15 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0981. Tuesday, 5 Feb 1991.


(1) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 91 21:09:47 +0100 (34 lines)
From: Henning M|rk <slavhenn@aau.dk>
Subject: Slavic OCR

(2) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 91 9:28:47 EST (23 lines)
From: RANDALL N - ENGLISH <nrandall@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: ... Word-WP

(3) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 91 08:49 EST (15 lines)
From: N_EITELJORG@cc.brynmawr.edu
Subject: Re: 4.0973 Qs: [file xfer]...

(4) Date: Mon, 04 Feb 91 10:34:28 EST (7 lines)
From: eugene cotter <FCOTTER@SETONVM>
Subject: Re: 4.0735 Qs: IBYCUS/TLL; ...

(5) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 91 13:35:09 EST (12 lines)
From: Stephen Spangehl <SDSPAN01@ULKYVM>
Subject: 4.0957 Queries: ... Student Choices

(6) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 91 19:27 CST (22 lines)
From: Bill Sjostrom
Subject: UCLA education surveys

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Date: Mon, 4 Feb 91 21:09:47 +0100
From: Henning M|rk <slavhenn@aau.dk>
Subject: Slavic OCR

There have recently been a couple of queries about OCR software for
reading Slavic languages (Cyrillic; Czeck, Croat, or Slovene). /W.Mark
Ritchie, Univ. - June Thompson, Univ. of Hull/ I should like to write a
few word about my experiences in this field.

For the last year I have been creating Slavic text bases - primarily
Serbo-Croatian (Latin) and Russian (Cyrillic) - using a program which
I can warmly recommend because of its strong abilities to learn
sets of special characters, e.g. Cyrillic and East European letters
with diacritic marks. Under favourable circumstances (nicely printed
books, good paper) the program can reach a recognition accuracy of
99.9%, and its speed is reasonable: 1-2 minutes per page (depending
on page size).

The program is called AutoREAD and comes in versions for both IBM and
MacIntosh. It is French and can be purchased from:

ISTC - Systemes informatiques
3 rue Sainte Felicite
75015 Paris
Tel. (1) 45 32 80 01
Telex 201 297F
FAX (1) 45 32 96 14

Henning Moerk
Slavisk Institut
Aarhus Universitet
Danmark
slavhenn@aau.dk

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Date: Tue, 5 Feb 91 9:28:47 EST
From: RANDALL N - ENGLISH <nrandall@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: ... Word-WP

[...]

To Jonathan Kandall: About saving Mac Word files as 5.25" WordPerfect
files for DOS. A couple ways, depending on your hardware (actually,
there are more, but they cost money). If your Mac has a superdrive, and
if you're using the latest Word, you can save the Word file as a
WordPerfect file right onto an MS-DOS formatted disk (the superdrive
lets you format disks in DOS fashion). Then find a 3.5" DOS drive and
copy the file onto a 5.25" disk. Then load WordPerfect 5.0 and retrieve
the file. Formatting should be pretty good, but it's best if you don't
format extensively in Word to begin with. The other way is to upload
the Mac file as an Ascii (or binary) file to the mainframe, then
download it onto the PC. I do this a lot, and as long as you can dial
into the mainframe (i.e. you don't get a busy signal all the time), it
can be a relatively happy experience.

Neil Randall
nrandall@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca

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Date: Mon, 4 Feb 91 08:49 EST
From: N_EITELJORG@cc.brynmawr.edu
Subject: Re: 4.0973 Qs: [file xfer]... (5/98)

This is in reply to the question about transferring/translating MSWord
and Word Prefect documents between Macs and PCs. The program MacLink
has built- in translators so that one may directly link a PC and a Mac
and then pass files back and forth through a filter which will
accomplish the translations. I've not used it for Word Perfect, but
both DOS and Mac versions of it are supported as are Mac and Dos
versions of MSWord.

Nick Eiteljorg
Center for the Study of Architecture (n_eiteljorg@brynmawr)
Czech;
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Date: Mon, 04 Feb 91 10:34:28 EST
From: eugene cotter <FCOTTER@SETONVM>
Subject: Re: 4.0735 Qs: IBYCUS/TLL; TGB; Wuthering Heights etext (3/57)

Belated information! Just noticed you inquiry on Ibycus. Packard
Institute Chicago has all the information. E Cotter Seton Hall 201 761
9137
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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 91 13:35:09 EST
From: Stephen Spangehl <SDSPAN01@ULKYVM>
Subject: 4.0957 Queries: MLA Bibliography; Student Choices (2/51)

The references are to an annual study, done by Alexander Austin, of
freshman opinion, and reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education
(q.v.).

Stephen D. Spangehl +---------------+
University of Louisville | SDSPAN01 @ |
Louisville, Kentucky 40292 | ULKYVM.BITNET |
(502) 588-7289 or (502) 245-0319 +---------------+
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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 91 19:27 CST
From: Bill Sjostrom
Subject: UCLA education surveys

The question was raised by Norman Coombs about the survey of freshmen by
the UCLA group. I have not seen that survey, but the same group did a
survey of faculty at Northern Illinois University, where I work.
Faculty who declined to fill it out got threatening letters from the
provost. I sent it in, with a note to the effect that I thought the
survey was absolutely awful, and thoroughly bigoted. How can a survey
be bigoted? Easy. It's multiple choice, and they only put down answers
they want to hear, along the lines of, say, Do you think the provost has
improved the university significantly, to some extent, a small amount,
or no opinion? Would you care to guess whether the administration holds
up the answer to that question as evidence of how highly the faculty
think of the provost? How do you answer it if you hate the guy? The
survey had many questions in that vein, so I am skeptical of what comes
out of UCLA's education surveys. If anyone is interested, I can
probably find a copy of the survey.
Bill Sjostrom
Northern Illinois University
TA0WXS1@NIU