Yesterday was Valentine’s Day. Inevitably I found myself wondering what kind of ancient or medieval literary material there was about St Valentine.I found very little. What little there was to be found by a Google search suggested that it was all derived at many removes from the old Catholic Encyclopedia. The article in this is vague too.So off I went to the Acta Sanctorum. 14, the feast day, is in February volume 2. There wasn’t a lot, and this is one of the oldest volumes, from 1658.I’ve been working on a Latin Life of St George lately, so I am very much “in the zone” to work on another Latin life.

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So I thought that perhaps I would OCR the Latin text, and maybe look at translating it.Abbyy Finereader 14 is an excellent piece of software. It supports the Latin language properly, which makes it very useful.

Indeed I remember yearning for such a thing in days gone by.I didn’t think that a 1658 edition, complete with long-s, would OCR that well. So I looked for the Paris reprint of the 1850’s. This I found without difficulty, as they are all in Archive.org; but the quality is not good. Not even Finereader could make much of those grainy faint pages.My next step was to find some more copies of the book. As I indicated in, I faintly remembered a Google spreadsheet full of links to PDFs of the Acta Sanctorum.

A kind correspondent found it, and it is. But the links were all to the original edition.So I’ve spent this morning trying to locate a better scan of one of the Paris reprint volumes. Eventually I succeeded, in Google Books, in finding it, in the 1864 reprint. This, I was delighted to find, OCRs quite well. The page layout is hardly designed for OCR, but if you manually move the text boxes around, the results are really quite decent.Time for lunch now. I think that I need to go out and buy the materials that I intend to cook, actually!

But I shall continue correcting the OCR after that.Once I have a Latin text, I shall post it. I shall then look at translating at least some of it.I’ve yet to see any studies of the St Valentine literature, which is odd. It must exist; if not in English, then in German or French or certainly Italian. My search terms clearly are not good. But I can try out some searches over lunch!UPDATE: Over a lunch a kind correspondent emailed me a link to an obscure German site where they have apparently uploaded the transcribed. The German site itself is poorly designed, but I am assured that buried within is the entire text.

If so, of course, then there is no point in my doing it. Once I’ve worked out how to use the site, I’ll write a post on it. For some months I’ve been collecting bits and pieces. Mostly I have nothing much to add, but they shouldn’t be lost.Cool 9th century manuscript online as PDFVia I learn that a downloadable PDF of the Greek-Latin St Gall 9th century manuscript of Paul’s letters is online and can be downloaded as a single PDF:Note the where you can download a PDF of what appears to be the entire Codex Boernerianus.

It is beautiful.And so you can. It’s at the SLUB in Dresden, where it has the shelfmark A.145.b. It also contains Sedulius Scottus, I gather.Nice to see the interlinear, isn’t it?Codex Trecensis of Tertullian onlineA correspondent advised me that the Codex Trecensis of the works of Tertullian has appeared online in scanned microfilm form at the IRHT. Rubbish quality, but far better than nothing. De Resurrectione Carnis begins on 157r and ends on 194r.

De Baptismo begins on folio 194r and ends on 200v. De Paenitentia begins on folio 200v.Saints lives = Christian novels?A by Elisabeth Schiffer of Stratis Papaioannou, Christian Novels from the ‘Menologion’ of Symeon Metaphrastes. Dumbarton Oaks medieval library, 45. Harvard University Press, 2017, caught my eye. This contains 6 lives from Metaphrastes collection.Even though hagiographical texts are among the most frequently translated Byzantine sources, little effort has been made so far to translate parts of Symeon Metaphrastes’ Menologion. This is primarily due to the generally unfortunate editorial situation of these texts: They are transmitted relatively standardized, but in a vast number of liturgical manuscripts.In addition to summarizing the status of research on Symeon’s rewriting enterprise, Papaioannou explains in his introduction why he calls the texts in focus “Christian novels.” It is not unproblematic to apply this modern term, as he himself states, but he decided to do so because of the fictionality of these narratives and because of their resemblances to the late antique Greek novel. When saying this, it is important to emphasize—as Papaioannou explicitly does—that these texts of novelistic character were not understood as such by their audience.

On the contrary, the Byzantines regarded these texts as relating true stories, written for edification and liturgical purposes (see pp. Xiv-xviii).It’s an interesting review of a neglected area of scholarship where the tools for research – editions and translations – are not available.Full-text of the Greek Sibylline Oracles online for freebroke the story on Twitter: it’s J. Geffcken, Die Oracula Sibyllina, Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1902, which has turned up at Archive.org. A front-end from the. I downloaded.I double-clicked on the tesseract installer. This went smoothly.

It gave me the option to download and install extra languages (English is the default); among others I chose ancient Greek, and German, and German (fraktur). The latter is the “gothic” style characters fashionable in Germany until 1945. Curiously the list of languages is not in alphabetical order; French following German.Next I clicked on the GImageReader installer.

This ran quickly, and warned that you need a copy of Tesseract installed. It did not create a desktop icon; you have to locate the program in the Start menu. This would throw some users, I suspect.I then started GImageReader. It started with an error; that it was missing the “spellcheck dictionary for Dansk(Frak)”.

Why it looks for this I cannot imagine. Not a good start, I fear. I suspect that it expects Tesseract to be installed with all possible languages.Next I browsed to a tif file containing part of the English translation of Cyril of Alexandria on John. The file explorer is clunky and non-Windows standard. The page displayed OK, although if you swap back to another window and then back again it seems to re-render the image.At the top of the page is the recognition language – set by default to the mysterious Dansk (Frak). I changed this to English. I then hit “Recognize all”.

The recognition was quick.So far, so good, then. While unpolished, the interface is usable without a lot of stress.The result of the OCR was not bad. A window pops open on the right, with ASCII text in it.

It didn’t cope very well with layout issues, nor with small text. But the basic recognition quality seemed good.My next choice was a PDF with the text of Severian of Gabala, De pace, in Greek and Latin.

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This opened fine! (rather to my surprise). I held the cursor over the page, and it turned into a cross.

Holding down the left mouse button drew a rectangle around the text I wanted to recognise. A quick language change to Ellenika and I hit “Recognise selection”.The result was not bad at all. Polytonic accents were recognised (although it did not like the two g’s in a)/ggeloi).There were some UI issues here. I could zoom the window being read – great! But annoyingly I could not zoom the text window, nor copy and paste from it to Notepad. But I could and did save it to a Unicode text file. The result was this:1.

Οἱ ἄηε).οι τὸν οὐρἀνιον χο-ρὸ συστησἀμενοι εὺηγγελίζοντοτοῖς ποιμἑσι λἑγοντες «εὐαγγε-λιζόμεθα ὑμῖν σήμερον χαρὰ με-γάλην, ήτις ἔσται παντὶ τῷ λαῷ».Παρ’ αὐτῶν τοίνυν τῶν ὰγίων ἐκεί-νων ὰηέλων καὶ ῆμεῖς δανεισἀ-μενοι φωνὴν οὐαηελιζόμεθα ὑμῖνσήμερον, ὅτι σήμερον τὰ τῆςὲκπλησίας ἐν γαλή›η καὶ τὰ τῶναἰρετικῶν ἐν ζάλη. Σἡμερον τὸοπιάφος τῆς ἑκκλησίας ἐν γαλήνηConclusions? I’ve used worse in the past. I think it looks pretty good. I suspect that, to use it, one would need to train it a bit more, but you can’t complain about the price!Well done, those who created the training dictionary. An extraordinarily advanced OCR solution, VERUS™ Professional provides the most innovative Middle Eastern language and Asian optical character recognition in the world. VERUS™ Middle East Professional recognizes Arabic, Persian (Farsi, Dari), Pashto, Urdu, including embedded English and French.

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This morning I got hold of Nuance Omnipage 18 standard edition. The box was very light: mostly air, a CDROM, and a cheeky bit of cheaply printed paper announcing that they included no manuals at all, in order to save the planet. Humph.The footprint is quite small, and I copied the CDROM to my hard disk before installation. Curiously the disk packet had two numbers both labelled as “serial number”.The installation was unfamiliar. As I always do, I clicked on the “select options” and found that it wanted to install some voice-related stuff.

I unchecked that. Then I went ahead and did the install. At one point it announced that it was going to install something called “CloudConnector”, without giving me the chance to decline.

But I hit cancel, and the rest of the install went fine. It then popped up a box asking me to register — this opened a web page with a rather shoddy page collecting details.

Every page gave an “invalid certificate” error in IE, which is sloppy. And then it asked if I wanted to activate, which I did. So far, so good.I then opened OP. It popped up some “friendly” menu, which I removed.

Then I looked at the main screen, and decided to open a PDF and work on it in OP. It took a little while to work out that I needed “Process Workflows PDF or Scanned Image to Omnipage document. Somehow I think “File Open” would be rather more normal! Once you’ve selected this, you click on a button on the tool bar to start processing. It prompted for a PDF, which I had created myself from some digital photos of Ibn Abi Usaibia, and it promptly objected “non-supported image size” to each page and refused to open it!

Silly programme: I don’t care what the image size is, I want to get some OCR of the pages!OK, let’s see if I can workaround. I select instead “Camera image to Omnipage document” and select a bunch of the same images before I put them in a PDF.

This time it decides to cooperate. It reads the images, rotates them to portrait mode (correctly). Then it pops up some kind of dictionary thing, which is annoying. I hit “close” and the windows cursor starts spinning. It doesn’t seem to be doing anything, but it’s just sitting there.

Hum.After a while I get bored, and close the program down. At least it dies gracefully, prompting me to save my work.

I reopen it, and reopen my project. Then I click the “Text editor” tab. It looks as if it recognised page 1 OK, despite being typescript.

No errors, anyway. My first encounter with OCR quality is good.But I can only see EITHER the image, or the recognised text, not both at the same time. It ought to be possible to do this. After a bit of hunting, I find “Window Classic view” which gives me side-by-side. But I go back to “flexible view”, because I have just discovered that, if I click on the text window, the line of text from the image appears in a hover box above the line.Now this is really rather convenient. Mind you, when the lines are slanted — as is often the case — I wonder how it would do?I hit Alt-Down, and nothing happens. Of course, this is not Finereader.

A bit of hunting and the Edit menu informs me that Ctrl-PgDn is next page. F4 is next suspect character. I never used this in Finereader, but here using it with the hover boxreally works. My text here has quite a few vowels with overscores. None of these are recognised by default, but at least I can see them!So far, not too bad! Better, indeed, than I had feared.Now I need to start adding custom characters.

I want to define my own “language” for recognition, based on English but with all the funny characters that I need in this document to represent long vowels. “Tools Options” seems to give me choices.

On the process tab I see a box saying “Open PDF as images”. Its unchecked by default — I’ll check it now, and see if I can open that PDF. Looks as if you have to save your settings; I save mine to the same directory where I stored the install CDROM. Then I do “File New”, and still can’t open my PDF.

Oh well.Back to the OPD project from the digital images. Can I define some extra characters? Well you can; but it all looks rather weedy compared to Finereader’s options.

Let’s try these: āīōūšŠ. I get them from charmap, pointing at the Alphabetum Unicode font; but any reasonably full unicode font such as Ms Arial Unicode or Titus Cyberbit Basic would do. Then “Tools Options OCR Additional characters” and I just paste them into the box.

The “” button next to that box leads to some weedy, underspecified lookup, which really needs to be more like Charmap. But do these characters get picked up?Now I want to re-recognise. I click on the thumbnail for page 1 and the menu gives me no option. Wonder what to do.In fact I’ve spent some time now trying to work out how to kick off a limited re-read. Surely this should be simple and obvious? Eventually I work out that you select the thumbnails of the pages you want, and hit the toolbar button and that kicks it off.So how does it do?

Well, it recognises the overscore a. None of the other characters are picked up. That’s not so good as Finereader.Also the more skewed the page is, the less well OP handles it (understandable), and the less easy it is to fix. OP rather presumes that the recognition is near perfect, and has only limited fixing to do. In such a situation, indeed, OP will be quicker to do a job than Finereader. And I notice that a ribbon with characters to paste is across the top of the text window — nice touch.

This motivates me to go back and explore again. I haven’t worked out how to set MY characters in that ribbon. But when I went into the weedy charmap substitute, there was a similar ribbon at the top, and right-clicking on it allowed you to add more character sets, which increased the number of characters; and by clicking on them, to add them to the ribbon. How you remove them from the ribbon I don’t know.

It is, in truth, a badly designed feature. And the OCR still doesn’t recognise what I need.I’ve had enough for now and closed it down. Is it any good? Almost certainly. It’s less good for weird characters. But it undoubtedly will see service.UPDATE: Have just discovered, on starting Word 2010, that Nuance have seen fit to mess with the menus in this (without asking me).

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Finereader 10 image of same documentWeird. Doubtless there is some setting to persuade FR11 to behave, but it isn’t obvious what.

This does NOT happen when I recognise the page again in FR11. The style gets set to “Body Text (2)”, in this case.And when I do Ctrl-Z, and revert the recognition, it goes back to the weird appearance above. But this time, a bunch of other styles are available, and if I change to BodyText2, that is what I get.

But on the next page once again, Barcode is the only style.This must be a bug, I think. It means that Abbyy’s testers have not tested importing documents from FR10 sufficiently. What it means is that you can’t upgrade projects once you start them. Well I try to keep my projects small, and break up large documents into small chunks, so I shan’t mind. That would seem to be the workaround.One good feature that is new, is that it remembers where you were in the document last time. All previous versions always opened the document at page 1. I got quite accustomed, indeed, to placing a “qqq” at the point where I stopped, so I could find it again next time.

No need in FR11, it seems.Also FR11 comes bundled with “PDF Transformer 3”. This suggests that the latter product was bought in, to beef up the rather unremarkable PDF handling in Finereader. I’ve not tried this yet, tho.

Scanning and OCR is on my mind at the moment. A new version of Abbyy Finereader — version 11 — is out. Since I have some 750 pages of Ibn Abi Usaibia to do, any improvement in accuracy is welcome, however slight.Originally I did my OCR using Omnipage. It is many years since I was led (by Susan Rhoads of ) to look at Finereader 5. This was immensely superior, and I have never used any other product since. But I see that Omnipage 18 is now out. Stirred by a bit of curiosity, I’ve been wondering what this would be like.Finereader is not without its faults.

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Foremost among them, for what I want to do, is that it cannot make a PDF searchable without making the PDF much, much larger, messing with the images, and so forth. This is so bad, in fact, that I use Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 for that task, despite the much inferior OCR.Omnipage seems to be aware of the issue, and a look at their site suggests that they realise that a lot of this activity goes on.I decided, therefore, to buy both and see what they’re like. I will let you know!But software vendors are thieves and robbers!

If you, the cost of a downloaded upgrade to Finereader Pro 11 is “€ 89 / £ 65 (download)”. The full version is “€ 129 / £ 99” — and if you want just the download, it’s exactly the same price, despite the fact that it costs them less!

But go to is just £63.16 — less than the upgrade. Needless to say, that’s what I ordered.Omnipage are no better. Go to, and Omnipage 18 (standard version) is £79.99, whether download or boxed. Again they swindle the download users. But go to is £46.90!I didn’t buy the Omnipage Pro version, but stuck with the standard one. It’s a lot more money, and I wasn’t convinced that I’d use the extra features — especially since I don’t know if the OCR is any good at all.

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Here a trial version would have helped — Finereader. This is smart marketing on their part, because magazine reviews of such a specialised area of software are invariably useless.My current interest in Russian texts of Methodius means that I was interested to see that Omnipage offer. Finereader used to have a specific “Cyrillic option” version — indeed I owned a copy, back in the FR5 days — but this seems to have vanished from their product list. Kudos to Finereader: Russian support is included in the main product! I only wish their obscure “fraktur” recognition module was included too! This recognises old “Gothic”-style typefaces, and some of us would find it handy.

But I could only find it in their. And it doesn’t seem that you can even buy the latter off-the-shelf. I’m scanning Brockelmann’s Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur. It’s mostly in German, of course; but the Arabic is transliterated using a wide variety of odd unicode characters. There are letter “a” with a macron over it (a horizontal line), and “sh” written as “s” with a little hat on it and so forth.

These don’t occur in modern German, so get weeded out.But you can do this, in Finereader. You just define a new language, based on German. I called mine “German with Arabic”. And when you do, you specify which unicode characters the language contains. So all I had to do was scroll down through the unicode characters, find the funnies that Brockelmann had used, and add them in.And, if you don’t get them all first time, you can edit the language, select it, get the properties, and add the next few in. And it works. It really does.Finereader is really amazing OCR software.

And I learned all this from the help file. Look under “alphabet” in the search. Like most people, I have become used to searching Google books and Archive.org for out-of-copyright scholarly texts. These are an enormous blessing to us all, where books normally hidden in University rare books rooms can be downloaded as a PDF.I’ve become aware that it is possible to upload books to Archive.org, and have uploaded a couple of items which I have, and which were not in the archive.Of course the first step is to scan the book. For this I use Abbyy Finereader 8.0, which drives a Plustek Opticbook 3600 scanner at 400 dpi. This creates images of the pages, and all the pages in the book can be saved as a single PDF file from Finereader. For optical character recognition, I use Finereader 9.0 (which can only drive the scanner at 300 dpi or 600 dpi, curiously) which has much improved accuracy over Finereader 8.It is necessary to create an account on Archive.org in order to upload.

Then you get a button ‘Upload’, and can use this to do an upload of a PDF. This will work fine. To add extra file formats, use the instructions in the FAQ; edit the item, use the item manager, checkout the item (no download is involved in checkout), and then use an FTP interface to add more files. I was unable to get this to work in Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox 3; but the CuteFTP programme worked fine once I disabled secure-FTP and used simple FTP.I added to each item a text file output, a Word document with all the formatting, and an HTML file with simple formatting only.I would like to encourage readers to look at their shelves and consider which texts might be usefully uploaded.

Every printed item prior to 1st January 1923 is out of copyright in the USA and so can go up. Copyright laws in the EU and UK require knowledge of the biography of the author, as copyright there absurdly expires 70 years after the death of the author. But union catalogues of research material like these days often indicate the birth and death date of authors, making it possible to determine status.