Re: Botanical spell checker?
- To: M*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: Botanical spell checker?
- From: R* F* D*
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 11:55:37 -0500 (EST)
Nan:
If you have a flatbed scanner with optical character recognition (OCR)
software, you could scan in the indexes of references like Stern's Botanical
Latin. This could turn out to be a bit of work, depending on how it is set
up. You would have to check the accuracy of the scanned text, though.
I've done this for my Salvia reference works, and built up a data base that
I can use to check spelling and find out which reference and what page a
species is described. I plan to elaborate this from a set of spreadsheets
into a relational data base for more general information, including only
public domain content.
I've been able to do this quite well using WordPerfect suite's utilities.
WordPerfect's Reveal Codes and Find and Replace utilities have been very
useful for this work, much better than MS Word.
Richard F. Dufresne
313 Spur Road
Greensboro, NC 27406
336-674-3105
