tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post975653461610154595..comments2024-01-21T02:58:08.208-05:00Comments on On the Main Line: Searching online in Hebrew with imperfect OCR.Mississippi Fred MacDowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734864605700159687noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-79467724893115098682011-09-06T08:45:40.602-04:002011-09-06T08:45:40.602-04:00The OCR on the JTS seforim like Liberman and Ginzb...The OCR on the JTS seforim like Liberman and Ginzberg regularly mix up samech and mem sofit, also nun and gimmel. They are wrong as often as they are right.Zoharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13777354773864518000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-87919445453574392252011-09-06T04:02:23.460-04:002011-09-06T04:02:23.460-04:00I had trouble once with Hehs; they came out as Sam...I had trouble once with Hehs; they came out as Samechs or Mem sofits, I don't remember.JXGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-8859190064928463832011-09-05T15:54:26.709-04:002011-09-05T15:54:26.709-04:00http://somehowfrum.blogspot.com/2009/10/internet-a...http://somehowfrum.blogspot.com/2009/10/internet-and-future-of-learning.html<br /><br />Yehoshua, I posted this almost 2 years ago. Enjoy.SoMeHoW Frumhttp://somehowfrum.blogspot.com/2009/10/internet-and-future-of-learning.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-62349293429897356412011-09-04T13:59:18.991-04:002011-09-04T13:59:18.991-04:00Mar Gavriel - I live in Eretz Yisrael in charedi n...Mar Gavriel - I live in Eretz Yisrael in charedi neighborhoods..Computers only became common/accepted within the last few years bclal in a beis medresh...<br /><br />S. - Now that I have your attention reply back to my emails ;)Yehoshuanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-32116593434544666302011-09-04T10:39:22.215-04:002011-09-04T10:39:22.215-04:00Computer Enthusiast, while you have a point to mak...Computer Enthusiast, while you have a point to make, what does it have to do with the subject here? If we're talking about a method of searching then you probably wouldn't have come across the thing in the first place. First, because most of us don't have tens of thousands of seforim, secondly because other than the obvious sources and references you probably just won't stumble across too many obscure, yet relevant things on your own.<br /><br />Yehoshua, this isn't for every day, normal searching. I would say that most words are correctly OCRed. But if you're really trying to dig deep then you have to keep this in mind.S.http://onthemainline.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-2416526813692940122011-09-04T09:01:34.819-04:002011-09-04T09:01:34.819-04:00Um, Yehoshua? I was doing that with a chevruso bac...Um, Yehoshua? I was doing that with a chevruso back in 2005.Mar Gavrielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-33630068634089546622011-09-04T08:51:36.950-04:002011-09-04T08:51:36.950-04:00I don't know when or if the day will come that...I don't know when or if the day will come that people will sit one across the other in a beis medresh each looking at their own computer to learn from and not from seforim.<br /><br />(However I'm sure it has been done somewhere by now!)Yehoshuanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-28276247057274332422011-09-03T16:36:45.218-04:002011-09-03T16:36:45.218-04:00How dare you say such a thing? OCR is 100% perfect...How dare you say such a thing? OCR is 100% perfect. Computers are the way of the future. I have already put all my seforim into genizah, now that I have a computer.Computer Enthusiastnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-75442681082417610802011-09-03T16:19:15.867-04:002011-09-03T16:19:15.867-04:00Thanks for posting this. I realize for this reason...Thanks for posting this. I realize for this reason I probably miss a lot of helpful results however truth is I'm too lazy to start working out possible spelling errors with OCR searches. If there would be a list though perhaps it would encourage me a bit more.Yehoshuanoreply@blogger.com