Useful Tool, even with old texts

I have been looking for a way of extracting text from late 18th and early 19th century publications available on the web (admittedly, an esoteric need ...) and figured that, at this price, Picatext was worth a try. So, I gave it a baptism by fire and try it out on a publication from 1800 that possesses considerable challenges — older fonts, the long s (which looks like an f but lacks the bar). The results were better than I had any right to expect.

Heres the result:

Several English and German, as well as German and Eng-
lish Diétiqnaries, of various siees, have of late been published
in ‘Germany ; but the all, unfortunately, prove but too evi-
dently, that the respe ive ‘authors, though suflicicntly versed
in the German language, ossessecl but a deficient knowl
of the English {and a di °onary upon which the tyro mig t
confidently rely, is still a desideratum. The two dictionaries
before us, though far from what they mi ht be expe£led,vvill
prove very acceptable to thelearners of e German language
in this count .

Obviously, theres a lot to clean up here, but I suspect that it may be less work than my having to type the entire passage myself!

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