I'll do it.  I grabbed the text and will format it and have it ready in a couple of weeks.

"I'm looking for a book by F.W. Krummacher called The Risen Redeemer: the Gospel from the Resurrection to the Day of Pentecost. The text ain't available in good form. " <JesusLives>

Question: Where did you find the text?  

I posted three sample 1609 / 1582 PDF pages - am hoping that someone can OCR them and then the rest of the 2872 pages.

 

By the way - other then I don't like the changes Challoner made there is nothing wrong with the DR in E-sword

Just as long as you understand you have the version of 1750 and not the original 

The 2872 pages include not only the Bible text but a complete detailed Catholic study Bible. Both the 1609 / 1582 and the Challoner 1750 [the 'official' E-Sword version] versions were the official English language Bibles accepted by the Catholic church.  

I might be missing something here. What's wrong with the official version of the DRB available for download from within e-Sword?

 DR 1042 ps1.pdf   77.67K   5 downloads

 DR 2105 mat 2.pdf   72.5K   1 downloads

Have two more pages

Psa 1:1   and Mat 2:1

Hope that someone can OCR these files

 DR1609 G1.pdf   93.03K   1 downloads

SOME people don't edit the OCR results.  When you hear Josh talk about a "pump and dump module," he's talking about people who just OCR it (or take the OCR'd version from Archive.org or some other website) and throw it into a module as though it was a finished product.  That's caused many people to simply delete what would have otherwise been useful modules.

Unfortunately, that looks like some of the e-Sword modules I've seen online in some places.  I am not familiar with the OCR program you mentioned.  I would recommend FineReader (by Abbyy) or OmniPage (by Nuance).  They would probably give you a much better text to work with.  Of course, depending on the quality of the pdf, it might not matter much.

People don't edit the OCR results? great!  [[And I don't have the $4 - 500 for the REAL OCR programs]] 

Some one else is going to have to do this as I don't have the tools [nor the time to edit 2800 pages]

It is some 2800 plus pages - How do I breakup a PDF file into individual pages [maybe if I could break it up into sections of 100 pages?]

Why do we need OCR?  because all I have is pictures of the text.  

 

Word 13 gave up [mild crash] after 45 minutes

 

The PDF file I have of the DR 1582 is in facsimile format. See post 11 on page 2 for a snipette. 

 

It is some 2800 plus pages - How do I breakup a PDF file into individual pages [maybe if I could break it up into sections of 100 pages?]

Why would you want to OCR the text when it's already been OCR'd?

Translations from one language to another do trigger a copyright. But, it's hard to see a derivative copyright qualifying under a "translation" when the editing involves systematic (and therefore, by definition, uncreative) changes in spelling. 

Also saw the post by Bradley S. Cobb But Josh is listed as Administrator 

You are the ones that has to "worry" about those things so will leave it in your hands

I Have WORD 13 and it does PDF to DOCX files.  Have it running against a DR 1582 PDF - how do I drop you a file? {I am new here}

May take a while and not sure that it will not crash {maybe too big}  [be back when it quits - one way or the other]

""On the one hand, I'm not sure I see the value of an archaic English Bible. On the other hand, is this what you're looking for?""

I am not sure that anyone is going to want to do the needed editing to get the archaic English into a readable format Very good OCR and good spell check might do the trick - but you also might have to check every change made - by hand  - [and then you will know why someone is charging $84 for the results] 

See post 12 [on page 2] and post 10 [on page 1]

They show the needed tests for OT Gen 1:5 [Volume one] and Psa 1:1 [Volume two] and NT Mat 2:1  

 

Also that the files are in OLD ENGLISH   see post 11 [on page 2]  And other comments in some of my other posts  our 'w' 'wxy'  is 'v' 'v'  vv 'tuv'  and requiring two of them.  

 

Challoner was 1750 (or so) - if it is in Old English and it passes those three verses I think we have found the real thing

 

DSaw looks like the correct file - it passes the tests and is in Old English

 

Sorry Josh Bond but there are lots claiming to be but are not [Check out the three tests and find a known Challoner and test my proposed tests]  Gen 1:5  ends " that made one day."   Psa 1:1 " hath not gone" [not walked] and Mat 2:1 sages [not wise men] 

 

Note that if you find one in a modern English font that passes the tests above it may have been stolen from Dr. Peters in violation of copyright.  And should cost $84 or so.

 

I have searched for the Douay-Rheims but all I find is the Challoner version

 

If we are to have the original Douay-Rheims in esword we need to first find a source for the oringinal version

 

a couple years back there was a gentleman from the UK that wanted the Newberry study bible in pdf and could not find it anyware in the version he wanted he did have it in book form though I offered to scan it and now it's in the pdf section of this site 

 

so here is the question is someone willing to give up there copy so that everyone who wants to can read the original

I found a site that is selling pages from the 1609 / 1852 at $200 each - that makes the 1582 NT cost over $160,000

And the OT is more then twice as long.  Maybe some BIG e-publisher can get their hands on a copy but WE don't have that kind of money.

How well will the facsimile work for OCR? http://www.churchlat...ouayrheims.aspx   $20 for facsimile CD

OR Some one needs to contact Dr. William von Peters at http://www.realdouayrheims.com/ and ask if he is interested in publishing his work in E-book format.  We might have to pay $85 each to get it into E-Sword 

[Will check back here from time to time to see your progress]  [sorry for being the one that voided the prior file - that was a LOT of work]

those links do not work for me 

 

what we are looking for is the original not the Challoner version the challoner version is already an e_sword module

 

I use omnipage pro for OCR an I'm very happy with it

If you do get an original copy in PDF the letter 'w' as in 'wxyz' is printed as two 'v' as in 'rstuv'  and looks like vvas  'v' 'v' 'a' 's' for was

And the short s  that looks like f (see prior post)  ftar is star  [I am not an expert in Old English - there maybe other differences]

Who ever does the work - read all of the comments at the start of the Bible - the ones used had the 'magic' word 'Challoner' hidden in them

and the publisher of the files stated that they were 1582 files (so what was Challoner's name doing in their introductions?)

Also every Challoner version that I have seen uses the dates 1609 / 1582 as if they were not Challoner's work.  

I have failed to find any version of the 1582 / 1609 in modern type except for the Dr Peters Real Rheims - I could have missed it.

I have searched for the Douay-Rheims but all I find is the Challoner version

 

I also came across a site that was charging 85$ or more for a cd of it

Dr Peters spent 10 years retyping the 1609 1582 versions. In those the word star looks like ftar  where I used 'f' as in efg they had a letter that looked like 'f' but did not have a bar . in those days 's' had a short version and a long version.  Just like today we have short and long vowels.  That version, in PDF fromat, can be found on the web - but they all violate Dr. Peters format copyright.   I have found a couple of errors in his work. Minor, small, hidden, hard to notice.  I think that Dr. Peters put them in on purpose so that if he ever takes someone to court on copyright his known errors will prove that they stole his work.  he calls it the Real Rheims [he has both OT and NT]

On churchlatin.com there is a $20 PDF CD of the original. It is in facsimile format  [That is it is photos of an original] Have fun re typing it.