May I suggest that if one does not have a firm grasp of the language being transcribed (particularly in the case of an entire text, rather than a short phrase or sentence), that one does not try to just have a go at it. I’ve had to completely correct a number of the French pages in the Johnston texts because someone guessed letter by letter and the result is nonsense.
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Yes! That is also mentioned here: Formatting and Transcribing Tips.
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I totally agree with you, Cailyn. It is especially true for cursive.
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And another request… if you use OCR on a text that includes a language other than English, please change the language (Select Language). It will do the accents right for that language.
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Absolutely.
Seeing the same issues with German (leave it to fluent / native speakers).
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I speak fluent German and I still don’t attempt most of the German transcription because the old script isn’t familiar to me.