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CazMar · 07-07-2011, 08:23 PM

Having seen the wonderful work some of our MR gang do preparing old books for us to download I thought I would spend some time tidying up a Google scan of Windelband's History of Ancient Philosophy. This was all working OK until I came to the first piece of Ancient Greek. I had to write it out in Unicode (which works) but by the time I had reached about the 15th piece of Greek I was becoming totally sick of the whole thing! The OCR that Google uses turns Greek into a string of gibberish. Has anyone out there tried to scan and convert a non-Roman alphabet with any success? Any tricks and tips to pass on? I am just trying to avoid having to retype every piece of Greek.

07-07-2011, 08:23 PM	#1
CazMar Book Geek Posts: 596 Karma: 1499085 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Adelaide, Australia Device: Kobo Touch, Asus MemPad 7" tablet, Nexus 5, Asus 10" tablet	Preparing old book for EPUB Having seen the wonderful work some of our MR gang do preparing old books for us to download I thought I would spend some time tidying up a Google scan of Windelband's History of Ancient Philosophy. This was all working OK until I came to the first piece of Ancient Greek. I had to write it out in Unicode (which works) but by the time I had reached about the 15th piece of Greek I was becoming totally sick of the whole thing! The OCR that Google uses turns Greek into a string of gibberish. Has anyone out there tried to scan and convert a non-Roman alphabet with any success? Any tricks and tips to pass on? I am just trying to avoid having to retype every piece of Greek.