Tedious things
Apr. 21st, 2013 10:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithI just posted that last article because I found it on the hard drive. There's a lot of interesting stuff in the Chums magazines, and I have a years worth of issues (and a Girls Own from the a bit earlier, also very interesting) and I'd love to post more material. But the print quality isn't that good (see image below) and the OCR results are very untidy. The first paragraph for the post I just did looked like this:
, WOMEN SAIL(lR§. f sons wao rousnr IN MANY Barrtrs. Y a newspaper ,of seventy years ago, we V are gravely informed that there _ died* at Tamerton, in her sixty-fourth year, a Mistress Mary Pote. A very respectable person was Mistress Mary, popular all the country round, and, what’s more, butt- womar: of Tamerton Parish Church.
If its a longer article, with images, it can take 2-3 hours to scan, edit and correct. So, I was thinking about ways to make the job easier. The obvious one being to just upload the scanned images. They're not small files though and they're not searchable.
, WOMEN SAIL(lR§. f sons wao rousnr IN MANY Barrtrs. Y a newspaper ,of seventy years ago, we V are gravely informed that there _ died* at Tamerton, in her sixty-fourth year, a Mistress Mary Pote. A very respectable person was Mistress Mary, popular all the country round, and, what’s more, butt- womar: of Tamerton Parish Church.
If its a longer article, with images, it can take 2-3 hours to scan, edit and correct. So, I was thinking about ways to make the job easier. The obvious one being to just upload the scanned images. They're not small files though and they're not searchable.
