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 ****
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> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *John Leake
> *Sent:* Friday, June 07, 2013 7:32 PM
> *To:* K Randolph
> *Cc:* B-Hebrew
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> *Subject:* Re: [b-hebrew] Query about Davidson's Analytical Lexicon****
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> 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.****
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> On 7 Jun 2013, at 22:48, K Randolph <[email protected]> wrote:****
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> 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. ****
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