[FRIAM] scanning an old manuscript

[Eric Charles]

Huh.... Depending on the fidelity you are looking for, I think its easier
than that. Almost any reasonably new copy machine will be able to autofeed
and scan the documents with OCR and email the file to you. Presumably there
are a handful of copy machines at St. Johns that could do it just fine.
You'd have to go in and correct some stuff by hand afterwards, but that's
probably true with anything you aren't paying a bunch for. If you were here
I could do it at work pretty quickly.


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Eric P. Charles, Ph.D.
Supervisory Survey Statistician
U.S. Marine Corps
<echarles at american.edu>

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 3:55 PM, uǝlƃ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> Coincidentally, I had the impetus to OCR this:
>
>   https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015035549800;view=1up;seq=1
>
> which produced this:
>
>   http://tempusdictum.com/misc/on-scientific-method-in-
> philosophy-russell-1914.txt
>
> I used Tesseract: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/
>
> On 12/01/2017 05:21 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> > I have a 400 page type script, double sided that I would like to scan,
> and then edit.  Fedex will scan it for a bit over 100 dollars.  They will
> put it into a word file for free, after that.  No guarantees.    Does
> anybody know of a better deal in Santa Fe, or if we mailed the type script
> off anywhere?  The quality of the OCR software is my most urgent concern.
> Are there some REALLY GOOD ONES?  Would it be cheaper for me to buy the
> software myself?
>
> --
> ☣ uǝlƃ
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