Hebrew Basic Rescan and OCR

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Hebrew Basic Rescan and OCR

Postby Oberon on December 6th, 2011, 9:13 pm

If anyone is interested, I re-scanned the "Hebrew Basic Course" text and created a PDF file. I also ran it through the ABBYY FineReader OCR. The OCR might be useful for people who want to verify their understanding of the Hebrew by copying and pasting into http://translate.google.com. I've also include OpenOffice format files in case someone is ambitious and wants to re-type the book. Be warned - I've done almost no verification of the OCR text.

http://www.mediafire.com/?heyhhv6rst3t8u6

Note: In order to do the OCR, I needed to clean up the scanned images. In some cases it was necessary to copy and paste some of the text images, so it is possible that the PDF may have some typos. If in doubt, I'd recommend looking at the scanned version available at http://www.eric.ed.gov.

Couple more things: Even though I don't believe my work is copyrightable in the US, it may be in other countries. Work first published on the Internet is generally not covered by the "Rule of the Shorter Term". In that case I want to declare that all material that I have worked on and contributed to this site is and has always been in the public domain and may be used for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. Of course this only covers the work I've done (text scanning, audio editing, forum posts, etc.); I can't speak for the underlying material. See the Creative Commons public dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). See another post in the forum about the copyright status of the FSI/DLI material.

BTW -
A few months ago I submitted the audio for Spanish Basic Vol 4, the missing audio for German FAST, and the Audio/Text for the DLI "Headstart for Spain" course. I'm not sure why they haven't made it on the site.

I hope to OCR the Arabic, Vietnamese, Turkish, and Sinhala texts. I might rescan the Vietnamese and Turkish texts if I get time.
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