Students and scholars struggle with Perseus’s outdated UI and opaque data storage, making custom translations and glossary‑driven learning cumbersome. LexiFlow delivers a clean, cloud‑native interface that surfaces raw text and parsing data while letting users apply on‑site AI or user‑controlled glossaries for precise, incremental translations.
Quantitative Score Breakdown
complaint frequency
4.5
growth rate
20
competition density
10.5
monetization potential
9
technical feasibility
7.5
search interest
6.4
Evidence Signal (2)
Raw Complaint Log
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Comment on: Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it
Perseus is very hard to use, but less clunky in the last few years than it was. But, as you say, I can't figure how this is helping. It is faster and easier to look in the dictionary. I can't tell where the text or parsing is stored. I was trying to see if data were present that might permit lightening translation with on site AI - or user controlled translation with glossary, for technical works — or, for the learner, increasingly partial translation, etc. Perseus often has one of ye olde English translations you can pull up - which can be pretty intolerable for rigorous works.There seem
Comment on: Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it
Agreed. Scaife supporters are delusional.What should actually be done, and what OP should do, is take the Perseus website and make it so it doesn't 503 all the time (it is incredibly unreliable).Then, FOIA the State of California for the pay-to-play data which the UC Irvine-based TLG hoarders are withholding from the public (it is a publicly funded project...) so that the corpus can be meaningfully extended and built upon.The 1990's tier html vibe of Perseus is to its great advantage.
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Students and scholars struggle with Perseus’s outdated UI and opaque data storage, making custom translations and glossary‑driven learning cumbersome. LexiFlow delivers a clean, cloud‑native interface that surfaces raw text and parsing data while letting users apply on‑site AI or user‑controlled glossaries for precise, incremental translations.
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