{"id":1262,"date":"2012-06-21T12:54:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T16:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2012-06-10T13:01:48","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T17:01:48","slug":"computer-aided-proofreading-type-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/computer-aided-proofreading-type-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer-aided proofreading, type 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other form of computer checking involves much more sophisticated software, and further reduces the chance of human error. In the process we&#8217;ve just been talking about, the letters were fed to me automatically, but I still had to use my brain to identify them and see that they were kosher. In this process, there&#8217;s barely any brain involved at all.<\/p>\n<p>In this process, the operator uses a hand-held scanner to get the columns of text into the computer. Then it is run through OCR software &#8211; very clever software, which not only recognises letter glyphs but can also be taught to handle variations in glyphs caused by its being hand-written. Because it is a computer, it can also be taught some of the laws of whether a letter is kosher or not, so it can apply those mechanically to each glyph and flag up any doubtful cases.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the OCR output is compared to a Torah text, and any discrepancies are flagged up along with the doubtfully-kosher ones. A report with all problems is generated and given back with the scroll to the sofer, who then goes through the list and fixes everything on it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hasoferet.com\/images\/torah\/scanreport.png\" style=\"border:0; padding:5px;\" alt=\"Scan report\"><br \/>Scan report<\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a piece of the scan report from my first Torah. <i>Column 003<\/i>, says the first entry on this report, <i>which starts \u201cVayomer Adonai Elohim\u201d &#8211; one comment. Line 21 (Bereshit 3:5), problem, thus: extra letter vav in the word \u201cmimenu,\u201d where it should say \u201c&#8230;yodea Elohim ki b&#8217;yom akhalkhem mimenu v&#8217;nifkedu eineikhem&#8230;\u201d<\/i> and then in the picture you can see it&#8217;s got \u201cv&#8217;mimenu,\u201d for some reason or other. <\/p>\n<p>I think I probably started writing the mem, got distracted mid-stroke, forgot I&#8217;d already started it, and started it over, but I don&#8217;t remember now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other form of computer checking involves much more sophisticated software, and further reduces the chance of human error. In the process we&#8217;ve just been talking about, the letters were fed to me automatically, but I still had to use my brain to identify them and see that they were kosher. In this process, there&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}