27 Sep
2015
27 Sep
'15
8:49 a.m.
On 27/09/15 15:08, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Errors are always bad. Agreed. That is not something we're discussing
here.
I don't have problems reading the current scans, as such. But when
having ten of these open at the same time, and scrolling through them,
it becomes obvious that the bitmaps are heavy. It can take a while for
the screen to be updated. Not to mention the problems you sometimes
hits with searching...
I think we are discussing errors. I did try to OCR stuff when I first
started scanning I didn't find anything
that could do an even marginally acceptable job. That's perhaps less of
an issue for War and Peace but
pretty serious for a technical manual.
I understand that having multiple 100MiB+ documents open at once will be
sluggish, certainly compared
to those same documents once they've been through OCR. However, if I
scan something and make the
raw scan available, someone can OCR it later (and re-upload just the OCR
version if they want). If I OCR
it and don't make the raw scan available then people are potentially
stuck with whatever OCR could manage
in 2015 (or earlier) and future-you will rightly curse me ten years down
the line (I'm assuming that OCR is
getting better with time, of course ....).
Antonio
arcarlini at iee.org