9 Mar
1999
9 Mar
'99
12:14 p.m.
On Mar 9, 12:32, Stephen Dauphin wrote:
I'd like to second this notion. Could those on
this list, who are
scanning for posterity, share their methods?
What platform(s), what hardware(s), what software(s). Any intermediary
format(s), final output format(s). Whatever it takes.
I, too, would appreciate thoughts on software/platform.
[I note Jim Stricklan's reply came in while
writing this. I have scanned
down to newspaper legal notice size. Is this 6 point? It OCRed virtually
identically at 200 or 300 dpi and the results were high 90%]
That's not what I'd call "high". That means that on average, you have
to
correct or interpret every tenth character. I'd call less than 99% "low",
not high. Our Department looked at this a few years ago, and rejected
anything less than 95%, I think. Even that means correcting (or as one
person put it, "clicking on") one character in every twenty.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York