>First I want to say thank you to those who volunteered to help with
>OCR/transcribing. As it turns out we probably will not have to worry about
>that now. My friend got back with me and he's going to scan them for me.
>His OCR package can recognize Icelandic characters while reading English
>characters so if everything works out we'll have the text files with a small
>number of errors soon.

That's some very good news. I hope it recognises them all.


I have been and still am working on an index for the
>graphics files of the dictionary. I am presently up to the words starting
>with "G" and will continue to work on it until it's finished. You can access
>the index page at:
>http://www.midhnottsol.org/public/concise/index.html

I looked at it, it's terrific! Now you can look words up and
it's not so terribly slow.


>As the text files have been proof read I'll be replacing the .GIF graphic
>files with HTML files with links to download .TXT and .RTF files.

Do you plan to keep the.gif files online as well? I agree with Arlie that
this would be beneficial. When something looks spooky in the OCRing
one could check the original.


>If you would like I'll keep the list updated
>with the progress of the project.

Yes, by all means!

Regards,
Haukur