I've had disastrous results with scanning typewriter-produced documents.? I wonder if Google Pinpoint would help on those?
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I've been a book publisher since 2003, and I often get very weird ephemera and personal letters that people want to include in books etc
On 01/22/2025 4:04 PM EST J Dye <dye.j@...> wrote:
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I haven't tried using OCR on older texts since shortly after I joined DPL. Was asked if we could digitize some old baseball programs. That wasn't hand-written, but older typefaces. The results were really unacceptable. If we had gone ahead with the project, it would have been easier to type all the text and somehow link it up to the scanned pages. That was several years ago, and I'm sure that the technology has improved substantially.
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I have been under the impression that better results still come from hand-transcription. And, obviously, several sites are still calling for volunteers.
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Was just sharing the information because I thought that some people on the list might be interested.
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On Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 07:30:47 AM EST, Victor R. Volkman via groups.io <victor@...> wrote:
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WOW the OCR has improved 100x since I last tried anything like that.
I may be encouraged to scan my grandmother's letters from WW2.
On 01/21/2025 9:39 PM EST RM Rayle via groups.io <rmrayle@...> wrote:
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I converted your sample script page to .png and uploaded it to Google Pinpoint which allowed me to copy (most of) the OCRed text.
Both the .png and resultant .txt are attached as is a screenshot of the text that Pinpoint missed.
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This might provide?an easier way for a person to convert a script document to text than doing it from the original page.
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For those lucky enough to have time to volunteer online (I used to, but seem to be increasingly over-committed)
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Jennifer
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