Hi Ken, I've been trying to download your pdf file but it keeps pausing and then stopping. Can you save it as a doc file? Thanks for posting it!
K. Masterson, Ph.D. On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Ken Penner <[email protected]> wrote: > The main problem was with the OCR, not the encoding. I’ve OCR’ed it with > ABBYY FineReader 10 (which handles Hebrew consonants), and uploaded it to > https://www.box.com/s/xgfz4ek5uteybwl2dzee **** > > ** ** > > Ken M. Penner, Ph.D.**** > > Associate Professor, Religious Studies**** > > 2329 Notre Dame Avenue, 409 Nicholson Tower**** > > St. Francis Xavier University**** > > Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5**** > > Canada**** > > (902)867-2265**** > > [email protected]**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *John Leake > *Sent:* Friday, June 07, 2013 7:32 PM > *To:* K Randolph > *Cc:* B-Hebrew > > *Subject:* Re: [b-hebrew] Query about Davidson's Analytical Lexicon**** > > ** ** > > I'm not convinced, Karl, I think the Hebrew is gibberish. Consistent > gibberish and (due to the sort of digitisation as part of a page layout, > well-ordered gibberish), but gibberish. The people who do the > archive.orgdigitisation don't really seem to pay much attention to language. > They > don't scan even Latin with any attempt to treat it as Latin, and Greek too > becomes nonsense. But the source image files are there if someone has good > digitisation software.**** > > ** ** > > Let's be grateful, though, that the stuff is there at all!**** > > ** ** > > John > ----------------------------------**** > > ان صاحب حياة هانئة لا يدونها انما يحياها**** > > He who has a comfortable life doesn't write about it - he lives it**** > > ---------------------------------- **** > > > On 7 Jun 2013, at 22:48, K Randolph <[email protected]> wrote:**** > > The gibberish doesn’t appear to be problems with OCR, rather incompatible > encoding. I’ve worked with OCR, and have seen when it messes up, but this > doesn’t look like OCR mess-up. **** > > > _______________________________________________ > b-hebrew mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew > >
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