[TheForge] OCR

Sun Feb 3 17:41:11 2002

the company I work for microfilms and scans to disk and could probably do it
for not much more than your cost. If you would like to investigate I can
send you info.
-----Original Message-----
From: Roy Wilson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, February 03, 2002 1:46 PM
Subject: [TheForge] OCR


>On Sun, 3 Feb 2002 12:22:56 -0600, lama wrote:
>
>>Daniel, thanks for your very generous and kind offer.
>>If we average 64 pages x 4 issues a year x 25 years,,,,, = 6400
>>pages for the Anvil's Ring x ( how many?) for Hammer's Blow
>>we are looking at what, 8,000 pages more or less. Scanning cost at least
>>a buck a page (How much Roy Wilson?)
>
> I started this job.  The Anvil's Ring did *not* scan well.
>Terrible recognition from the scans, the combination of gloss
>paper, odd font (letters that touch each other), and the paper
>thickness gave me no end of trouble.  The files were huge, even
>when OCR'd and saved in Word (for easy conversion to HTML).  The
>pics need to be scanned alone at a much higher resolution and then
>stepped down (my 58 page/minute scanner for OCR only goes up to
>300dpi).
>
> I finally ran the two issues off by scanning direct to PDF
>(huge!), burned them to a CD and sent it to ABANA.  Never heard
>back on it, I assumed they felt it was unusable on a website (and I
>agree).
>
> Daniel - if you're willing to do it, you really need at
>least 600dpi to capture the pics as well as the text.
>
> And since you're doing so much OCR, contact me offlist
><[email protected]>, I've found an untouched venue for OCR
>services that I'm willing to share - no way I can handle the amount
>of it that even my county produces, much less any other county or
>state.
>
>
>
>Roy Wilson
>General Operations Director
>Zanzibar Internet Land Line Administrator
>
>
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