I was thinking that any historic text that used something other than a modern Latin typeface, such a technique might have better chances of success. For example, if someone wished to apply OCR techniques to one of the earlier Irish Bibles that was printed using the old Irish font, such a method might have considerable advantages. See http://www.biblebc.com/Projects/odomhnuills_nt.htm http://www.biblebc.com/Projects/odomhnuills_nt.htm for an example of "William O'Domhnuill's (Daniel's) Translation of the New Testament into Irish Completed 1602, and here re-published in 1827".
As these dates are all so ancient, any resulting digitization must surely become public domain. Or is my understanding flawed? There may be many similar such works that predate January 1, 1923.. There have been tremendous advances in image processing techniques in recent years. But amateur enthusiasts choosing OCR software may not be fully aware of what can be done, and may merely go for the best marketed product aimed at modern typefaces. David H. Leandro DUTRA wrote: > > 2008/4/24, David Haslam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > First, how proven are the improvements over the current methods? > > Second, how likely is that you will lead a free software implementation? > > -- > skype:leandro.gfc.dutra?chat Yahoo!: ymsgr:sendIM?lgcdutra > +55 (11) 3040 7300 r155 gTalk: xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > +55 (11) 9406 7191 ICQ/AIM: aim:GoIM?screenname=61287803 > +55 (11) 5685 2219 MSN: msnim:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Neural-Networks-and-Optical-Character-Recognition-tp16850434p16904363.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
