Re: Zoega's Dictionary

Svanni wrote:

>I am very pleased to let everyone know that I have been in contact with the
>person who posted the .tiff files of Zoega's Dictionary. I have obtained
>permission to use the files and work on getting them up in HTML files and
>post them at my site. What I'll do is first convert them to .gif files which
>can be displayed in any browser then work on getting them indexed and posted
>at my site. Then I'll work on typing up the dictionary and presenting it in
>HTML so that it can be easily accessed and the downloaded fast. I'll have
>this posted at our site ASAP and let you all know when it is ready. He still
>has some pages to scan and right now the dictionary goes up to the word
>"silfr." He did say that since we (myself and other members of my
>organization) will be working to transcribe the dictionary that he would try
>to get the rest of the pages available as soon as he could.

Quick question - do you have access to OCR (optical character recognition)
software? If not, I would certainly be willing to take the TIFF files, run
them through the OCR I have, and send them back. They would then have to
be heavily edited, as OCR tends to be about 90-95% accurate in general
(I've found it to be less accurate for vowels with accents and umlauts,
though), but at least it's a bit easier than typing in the whole book.

-Selv

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