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Originally Posted by HarryT
Yes, it's because the documents are, for the most page, page-scanned PDFs. OCR really wouldn't work too well, because many of the documents are discussions of Egyptian texts (my primary area of interest), and hence contain a lot of Egyptian hieroglyphs, etc, as a part of the text. Many of the older ones (which are very often the primary sources for the inscriptions) are hand-drawn, because they predated the existence of hieroglyphic fonts for printing! If you'd like to see an example, this document is one the most important sources, and one I use constantly. Not something that OCR would work too well with! (If you scroll past the printed title pages and introduction, you'll see it's all hand-written.) |
Not to veer things off topic, but the younger version of myself is entirely in awe of the fact that you're an Egyptologist. That was my dream job as a youngster. I'm a rare book librarian now, specializing in medieval manuscripts - but man, I was fascinated by Egyptology as a kid - still am. Kudos!