resources, links for OCR & greek

• Nick White, Ancient Greek OCR
• Bruce Robertson, Lace: Visualizing, Editing and Searching Polylingual OCR Results
  • github: @brobertson
• Ryan Baumann, Antigraphaeus (Greek OCR in your browser)
  • github: @ryanfb

• Ancient Greek OCR
  • based on TESSERACT
  • 👍 tested on Windows
  • requires installation of gImageReader
  • requires an Ancient Greek OCR training file (provided)
• Antigrapheus the same with the above but runs in a web browser, using Tesseract.js.
  • based on TESSERACT
  • 👍 tested
  • no installation required
• Lace
  • Designed for High-Performance Computing (HPC environments). From their FAQ: "...not ideally suited for a desktop environment. We strongly recommend the tesseract OCR Engine and Nick White's polytonic Greek classifiers"
  • results since 2014 employed the Ciaconna Greek OCR process (Ocropus open source engine, with custom classifiers, image preprocessing and spell-check routines written in Python)
  • the earlier process, used from 2012 - 2014, is named 'Rigaudon' and is based on the Gamera image processing library. All code and classifiers for Rigaudon are posted in a github repository.

• Tools and advice for the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of Ancient Greek
• Digital Nyssa Project: From OCR to Plain Text
• Improving the quality of the output from Tesseract Docs

• stephanus.tlg.uci.edu Thesaurus Linguae Graecae® -A Digital Library of Greek Literature
• www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ Perseus Digital Library Project
• opengreekandlatin.github.io/First1KGreek First One-Thousand Years of Greek Project