Typing in lost code

[Douglas Taylor]

I've tried to OCR old Fortran Code from DTIC pdf documents.  There were 
2 big problems;

1. The copies are very poor to start with and all OCR attempts produced 
about 75% error rate.
2. Old Fortran code limited variable names to 6 characters so they were 
generally not descriptive of what they represented.  Some characters in 
the Fortran variables sometimes were missing in the printout and made 
recovery nearly impossible.

I hope that now gov't contracts require code to be archived 
electronically for posterity.  Probably never happen.

Doug

On 1/22/2022 8:06 PM, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote:
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> Can the listings be OCR'ed?
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>             - Ethan
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>> Has anyone ever used Amazon Mechanical Turk to employ typists to type in
>> old listings of lost code?
>>
>> Asking for a friend.
>>
>
> -- 
> : Ethan O'Toole
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