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J Dye All Messages By This Member #13742 For those lucky enough to have time to volunteer online (I used to, but seem to be increasingly over-committed) Jennifer Jennifer Dye 734-709-8502
dan freidus All Messages By This Member #13743 Thanks, Jennifer. The Smithsonian and Library of Congress also have volunteer?transcription programs: There's also a site that lists projects, by topic, from a variety of mostly smaller institutions (UM's Clements Library used to have projects listed here but I don't think they do now):? Dan Freidus toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 7:07?PM J Dye <dye.j@...> wrote: For those lucky enough to have time to volunteer online (I used to, but seem to be increasingly over-committed) Jennifer Jennifer Dye 734-709-8502
Daniel Romanchik All Messages By This Member #13744 I saw this and am tempted to try my hand at it. Last year, I transcribed some text for the project. The website would show you an image of an old postcard and you were to transcribe the handwritten messages on the front and back of postcards. It looks like this project is now complete, though. ? Dan
RM Rayle All Messages By This Member #13745 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. This might provide?an easier way for a person to convert a script document to text than doing it from the original page. --Roger-- toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 7:07?PM J Dye via <dye.j=[email protected]> wrote: For those lucky enough to have time to volunteer online (I used to, but seem to be increasingly over-committed) Jennifer Jennifer Dye 734-709-8502 77519543007-4159549-00395-OCRed.txt 77519543007-4159549-00395-OCRed.txt 77519543007-4159549-00395.png 77519543007-4159549-00395-missed-text.png
mneuliep All Messages By This Member #13746 开云体育 I was thinking of visiting bermoset someday ? toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Jan 21, 2025, at 9:39?PM, RM Rayle via groups.io <rmrayle@...> wrote: ? 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. This might provide?an easier way for a person to convert a script document to text than doing it from the original page. --Roger-- On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 7:07?PM J Dye via <dye.j=[email protected]> wrote: For those lucky enough to have time to volunteer online (I used to, but seem to be increasingly over-committed) Jennifer Jennifer Dye 734-709-8502 <77519543007-4159549-00395-OCRed.txt> <77519543007-4159549-00395.png> <77519543007-4159549-00395-missed-text.png>
Victor R. Volkman All Messages By This Member #13747 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. toggle quoted message Show quoted text On 01/21/2025 9:39 PM EST RM Rayle via groups.io <rmrayle@...> wrote: ? ? 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. ? This might provide?an easier way for a person to convert a script document to text than doing it from the original page. ? --Roger-- ? On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 7:07?PM J Dye via <dye.j=[email protected]> wrote: For those lucky enough to have time to volunteer online (I used to, but seem to be increasingly over-committed) ? ? ? ? Jennifer Jennifer Dye 734-709-8502 ? ?
J Dye All Messages By This Member #13748 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. I have been under the impression that better results still come from hand-transcription. And, obviously, several sites are still calling for volunteers. Was just sharing the information because I thought that some people on the list might be interested. Jennifer Jennifer Dye 734-709-8502 On Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 07:30:47 AM EST, Victor R. Volkman via groups.io <victor@...> wrote: 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. toggle quoted message Show quoted text On 01/21/2025 9:39 PM EST RM Rayle via groups.io <rmrayle@...> wrote: ? ? 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. ? This might provide?an easier way for a person to convert a script document to text than doing it from the original page. ? --Roger-- ? On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 7:07?PM J Dye via <dye.j=[email protected]> wrote: For those lucky enough to have time to volunteer online (I used to, but seem to be increasingly over-committed) ? ? ? ? Jennifer Jennifer Dye 734-709-8502 ? ?
Victor R. Volkman All Messages By This Member #13749 I've had disastrous results with scanning typewriter-produced documents.? I wonder if Google Pinpoint would help on those? ? 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 toggle quoted message Show quoted text On 01/22/2025 4:04 PM EST J Dye <dye.j@...> wrote: ? ? 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. ? I have been under the impression that better results still come from hand-transcription. And, obviously, several sites are still calling for volunteers. ? Was just sharing the information because I thought that some people on the list might be interested. ? Jennifer ? Jennifer Dye 734-709-8502 ? ? On Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 07:30:47 AM EST, Victor R. Volkman via groups.io <victor@...> wrote: ? ? 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: ? ? 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. ? This might provide?an easier way for a person to convert a script document to text than doing it from the original page. ? --Roger-- ? On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 7:07?PM J Dye via <dye.j=[email protected]> wrote: For those lucky enough to have time to volunteer online (I used to, but seem to be increasingly over-committed) ? ? ? ? Jennifer Jennifer Dye 734-709-8502 ? ? ?

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