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Again, welcome! —Beleg Tâl (talk) 04:57, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Complete English-Jewish Dictionary, 6th ed. - Harkavy - 1910

I'm interested in how well the updated newest OCR transcription features work. Check these two pages title and p. 2 where I tried the Tesseract "Transcribe text", but first setting advanced options.

When you go to p. 3 you'll see "Transcribe text" above and to the right of the edit area. Click the "ˇ". Then click "Advanced Options".

On that page make sure "Tesseract OCR" is selected, and then within "Languages (optional)" make sure "en-English" is selected *and* scroll down and (holding control key down) select "yi – ייִדיש". Since the dictionary has both English and Yiddish we want the OCR to look for and understand both.

Then hit the blue button "Transcribe whole page". After a short time the text area on the right ought to fill up with both the English and Yiddish text. It amazes me every time anything like this works!

You'll have to copy-n-paste the transcribed text back into the original "Creating page" window.

It isn't perfect, and here it is having trouble understanding which parts are left-to-right and which right-to-left, but oh so much better than the default scan! Have fun. Shenme (talk) 05:40, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Oh, and I had to find pages like w:Yiddish orthography and w:Hebrew punctuation to figure out the Hebrew 'dash' used on the title page (second line) ('maqaf'?). The OCR didn't understand, but guessed that it was a hyphen. You'll probably know about that already. Shenme (talk) 05:45, 17 October 2021 (UTC)