Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 70.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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[1] From: pmidgley <pmidgley@ualberta.ca> (11)
Subject: RE: 15.061 OCR on hand-printed texts
[2] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> (13)
Subject: Richard Weyhrauch
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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 07:47:50 +0100
From: pmidgley <pmidgley@ualberta.ca>
Subject: RE: 15.061 OCR on hand-printed texts
I have a similar problem to that of Michael John Gorman: I am looking for OCR
software that will recognize old manuscripts that contain large sections of
Greek. The manuscripts not hand-written--they have been typeset, but the fonts
and letter shapes used by the early typesetters do not always correspond to
modern typesetting characters. Consequently, existing OCR software has trouble
recognising many of the characters.
I suspect that Michael's problem is similar to mine, in that he, too is
dealing with early typeset material (not hand-written) that is not recognised
by computer software. (I hope I understand you correctly, Michael.)
If there are any suggestions, I'd welcome them.
Peter Midgley
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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 07:52:11 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Richard Weyhrauch
Some years ago one Richard Weyhrauch, a semi-retired computer scientist in
California, had a business (Ibuki, it was called) based on an OCR system he
designed and built for scanning unusually difficult material. His equipment
(hardware and software) could handle 17C printed books, perhaps even more
difficult material. I certainly saw proof of this. Richard turned up at a
few humanities computing conferences, but I haven't seen him in years. Does
anyone know of what happened to him and his OCR equipment?
Yours,
WM
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