Re: OS 9: Automatic capture of text in a window
Re: OS 9: Automatic capture of text in a window
- Subject: Re: OS 9: Automatic capture of text in a window
- From: Sebastian Hoffmann <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:01:58 +0200
On 21/04/2005, at 4:52 AM, Sebastian Hoffmann wrote:
Sebastian Hoffmann wrote [4/20/05 11:09 AM]:
I would like to extract a large number of text pages produced by an OS 9
program
Which? (That might help, if one of us also use(s/d) it.)
The Oxford English Dictionary client for the
Mac. An ancient program - no OS X version
around...
Yow! Are you sure of what you're doing? On the
African savannah lions tear you to pieces, birds
pick at the bones and worms do the rest. In the
cities we have lawyers. The OED is carefully
copyrighted. They sell the work on CD. No Mac
version, to be sure
<http://www.oup.co.uk/ep/prodsupp/ref/oed2v3/#Q12>
but they have a web site which is a subscription
service <http://www.oed.com/subscribe/>. They're
not giving that work away for nothing.
Yes, yes. I know. I have an official copy of the
CD-ROM - there used to be a Mac version. I'm not
trying to extract the whole text, put it on the
web and make some money with it. ;-) All I'm
trying to do is to extract the information on
spelling variants which is not available in a
format required by my research - which is on the
automatic normalisation of spelling variants in
diachronic text corpora, if that makes sense...
;-) My university is a subscriber of the OED
online service and I frequently access it. It
just doesn't give me the kind of data I need...
I know that this is a potentially grey area, but
if I'm not passing on the data to anybody else
(which I'm not going to), I should be pretty safe
from lions and other beasts.
Sebastian
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Sebastian Hoffmann
Englisches Seminar der Univ. Zürich
Plattenstrasse 47
CH-8032 Zürich
Tel: +41-1-634 3551
Fax: +41-1-634 4908
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