I pulled up the OCR project for the Book of Asaph the physician in Finereader 11 this lunchtime. It’s a 6th century Jewish medical text, which apparently contains interesting quotes from classical writers.
Readers may remember — I can hardly remember myself — that I was experimenting with deskewing the pages, increasing the brightness, etc, in order to improve OCR.
Pretty much the last thing that I did was to open the PDF and import it into FR11, without doing any work. I ran the OCR anyway, just to see what the raw result would look like.
The raw result is certainly better than some of the rubbish that I have had to clean up in the past. But it is far from simple. I think deskewing etc would be the answer. However there are 250 pages to do, one at a time. It might be a gentle task to do some time.
I am very interested in this book. May I help you with it?
Sincerely,
Seth Feltheimer
I am also very interested in this translation when you have it done, or if you need help to get it done
Have tried to get the S Muntner and Rosner translation
but not available in book form anymore that I can find
If you have a link to get that also I would much
appreciate it (or is this it?)
This is the Muntner and Rosner translation. It was never published, and exists in typescript at the US National Library of Medicine. I have photographs of the typescript (no thanks to the NLM). But it ought to be possible to obtain a copy from them.
Can I ask what your interest is? I’m not sure that I shall ever do much with this.