15.061 OCR on hand-printed texts

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Date: Wed May 30 2001 - 02:17:04 EDT

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                    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
    >
    > --
    > Michael John Gorman
    > Program in Science, Technology and Society
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    > Stanford University
    > Stanford, CA 94305-2120
    > Phone: 650-723-6817
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