>Zoega's dictionary scanned in - but not exactly ready
>to use. Can any of you even open those tiff files?
>
>http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/zoega.html
>
>Regards,
>Haukur
>

Hi Hawk!

I have used tiff files with Adobe Photoshop.
If you have that, you should be able to read them.


But the thing to do is to make them into GIF files
with a binary color table. (only b/w) which ensures
the fastest loading. Then you will also be able to
view them with Netscape.

Many people save things like that as jpg images,
which is a big mistakes, because you get much larger files
and the edges of the letters are made fuzzy.
(jpg is best for paintings, photos of landscapes and people,
but unsuited for b/w line graphics. jpg uses a sort of wave
transform which causes sharp edges to be smeared out)

anyway, if you have Photoshop, or any general drawing/painting
program that converts between graphic formats, you'll be able
to to make TIFF into GIF. But if each page is a separate
graphic file, it is so much work to do everything by hand,
that I wouldn't do it. What you need is a script that automatizes
everything.

I think the Swedes in Linköping have done a good job.
They publish both the scanned images, as well as the asii file that
results from OCR. See www.lysator.liu.se

Best regards
Keth