@Nathaniel How good is your latin? I have a 300 page book but I can't tell if the relevant section I want is 8 pages or 50

Actually it could be the whole 300. I can't make sense of the 16th century headings :P

@curiousdannii Still not particularly good :-(. Lately Spanish has been my focus, for work purposes. But Latin SE is quite liberal with the type of questions we allow – if you can articulate a specific question that relates to Latin, and show an attempt (even a failed attempt) at prior research, you're usually good to go.

@Nathaniel Does using Google translate count as prior research? :P

I can see that one of the sections has an epilogue on page 8, but then continues on for another 40 pages with a different format. I think he might be quoting Calvin and responding to him.

@curiousdannii That usually counts as a failed attempt =)

@Nathaniel I'll have to OCR this doc first then.

It's not available online anywhere? We get a fair number of questions there with screenshots of weird Latin scripts. If the work is online and you can point to what you think are the key sections/dividing lines, with links or screenshots to the appropriate pages, I expect that would be fine

It's been some work getting it into a useable format. worldcat only showed two copies, at Harvard and Oxford! But then I found a Polish site which had scanned it. But it scanned it into djvu format, which I hadn't heard of and my computer couldn't read. It was also separated by pages into 300 files! I combined them and converted it to PDF. Next step is OCR.

Might be (have been?) worth checking to see if it's on PRDL

@Nathaniel :O :D It is!

I had checked CCEL and Alexander Street Press's library, but I hadn't heard of PRDL.

It has it, and it's even OCRed! But it's not unicode :'(

PRDL has abbreviated words in the title, so it didn't come up in my searches

Nice :)

I've found more pdf versions now, including one from the Bavarian State Library, who might OCR it for me?

They might? It's been awhile since I tried OCR. I think one way to do it is to upload a djvu file with text layer on Wikimedia Commons, and then look at it on wikisource.

@Nathaniel Do you mean a djvu with selectable text? Unfortunately it didn't have that.

@curiousdannii Hmm, yeah, I think so. Like I said, it's been awhile. But if I'm reading this correctly, you can upload anything public domain to IA and they'll OCR it: archive.org/about/faqs.php#Uploading_Content