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Text-recognition assessment.
All seven supplied PDFs contained text layers. Six already offered searchable text. The Mountain Stoney vocabulary had seriously garbled recognition and received a fresh high-contrast OCR pass with the source scan appearance and all 57 pages retained.
| Document | PDF pages | Action |
|---|---|---|
| A Dakota-English Dictionary | 671 | Existing searchable text retained; no blanket OCR needed |
| Grammar and Dictionary of the Language of the Hidatsa | 184 | Existing searchable text retained; no blanket OCR needed |
| Around 500 Words in the Mountain Stoney Dialect | 57 | Fresh OCR PDF created |
| The Mandans: A Study of Their Culture, Archaeology and Language | 198 | Existing searchable text retained; no blanket OCR needed |
| A Concise Dictionary of the Ojibway Indian Language | 128 | Existing searchable text retained; no blanket OCR needed |
| Lakota Language to English Guide | 63 | Existing searchable text retained; no blanket OCR needed |
| Lakota History, Culture and Language Research | 63 | Existing searchable text retained; no blanket OCR needed |
What the OCR does—and does not—establish
The refreshed Mountain Stoney PDF contains a new searchable text layer. Faint typescript, historical spellings and Indigenous-language characters remain prone to errors. All 57 source pages are retained; 50 have more than 100 recognized characters. That measure describes text coverage, not transcription accuracy.
Download the refreshed searchable Mountain Stoney PDF · Open the searchable source scan
Connections retain their source context
Language labels and source orthographies remain distinct. Dictionary and glossary entries link to themes through their recorded words and English glosses. These suggestions do not establish translations between languages, cultural equivalence, or community-validated interpretations.
The Mandan upload is catalogued by its title page: The Mandans: A Study of Their Culture, Archaeology and Language. The Lakota research file is identified as a compilation from educational resources attributed to Victor Douville; it is not presented as a verbatim Elder interview.
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