Classical Greek True Type Fonts

Classical Greek True Type Fonts

My OCR cannot read Classical Greek because my Windows XP Home - Microsoft 
Office 2003 don't have Classical Greek Type Fonts.
Could someone help me to troubleshoot this issue.
There are many classicists who need this font to read classical Greek texts 
at schools and Universities.
May be Micrososft will be helpful to provide us with an "ad-in" download of 
this font.
Thanks to all and regards

date: Thu, 19 May 2005 02:24:02 -0700 author: Blasius

RE: Classical Greek True Type Fonts

"Blasius" wrote:

> My OCR cannot read Classical Greek because my Windows XP Home - Microsoft 
> Office 2003 don't have Classical Greek Type Fonts.
> Could someone help me to troubleshoot this issue.
> There are many classicists who need this font to read classical Greek texts 
> at schools and Universities.
> May be Micrososft will be helpful to provide us with an "ad-in" download of 
> this font.
> Thanks to all and regards

date: Thu, 19 May 2005 05:58:02 -0700 author: Blasius

Re: Classical Greek True Type Fonts

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Blasius wrote:

> From: "=?Utf-8?B?Qmxhc2l1cw==?=" 

It is stupid overkill to encode "Blasius" with binary UTF-8.

> X-Newsreader: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000

Bullshit!

> My OCR cannot read Classical Greek because my Windows XP Home - Microsoft
> Office 2003 don't have Classical Greek Type Fonts.

Palatino Linotype comes with Windows 2000.
 http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts_windows.html#greek

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date: Thu, 19 May 2005 15:27:08 +0200 author: Andreas Prilop

Re: Classical Greek True Type Fonts

"Blasius" wrote:
> My OCR cannot read Classical Greek because my Windows XP Home - 
> Microsoft Office 2003 don't have Classical Greek Type Fonts.
> Could someone help me to troubleshoot this issue.
> There are many classicists who need this font to read classical Greek 
> texts at schools and Universities.
> May be Micrososft will be helpful to provide us with an "ad-in" download of 
> this font.
> Thanks to all and regards

Hi Blasius,

Your OCR software is probably only trained to recognize Latin characters. The fonts don't have much to do with it.

I don't know a OCR software that can deal with Greek characters, but you might try to contact the company that published your software that there is a market for such a feature.

Regards,
Klaus

date: Tue, 24 May 2005 21:27:12 +0200 author: Klaus Linke

Re: Classical Greek True Type Fonts

Blasius wrote:
> My OCR cannot read Classical Greek because my Windows XP Home - Microsoft 
> Office 2003 don't have Classical Greek Type Fonts.
> Could someone help me to troubleshoot this issue.
> There are many classicists who need this font to read classical Greek texts 
> at schools and Universities.
> May be Micrososft will be helpful to provide us with an "ad-in" download of 
> this font.
> Thanks to all and regards

As others have said, Windows is not the problem.

I have Windows 2000 (if it isn't broke, don't fix it).  With no other 
modifications I have seen web pages in Greek, Russian, Chinese and 
Japanese, and in Word I can type in Greek, Russian, and Arabic.

What OCR program are you using, and where did you get it?  If it came 
bundled at no charge with your scanner, and you bought it in the USA, 
then it's likely to be a low-end version that only reads English.  It 
probably can't handle other languages such as Spanish or French that use 
accents, or the extra letters in German.

I'm guessing, but you probably need to spend some money and get a better 
program that recognizes other languages.  I use Abbyy FineReader and it 
has handled other languages for years (not surprising because it was 
developed in Russia).

Just for example:

http://www.abbyy.com/finereader7/?param=2264

Download additional recognition languages for FineReader 6.0

To install additional recognition languages, download their respective 
files and run them on the computer on which you have installed 
FineReader 6.0 Professional/Corporate Edition.

(Includes Greek, Russian, and several other languages with non-Latin 
alphabets.)

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date: Wed, 25 May 2005 03:01:12 -0500 author: Steven Marzuola (remove wax and invalid for reply) lid