Adrian Vickers wrote:
>At 10:52 17/03/2003, you wrote:
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>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: cctech-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-admin_at_classiccmp.org]On
>>>Behalf Of Adrian Vickers
>>>Sent: 15 March 2003 13:25
>>>To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
>>>Subject: ICL OPD - Documentation (2)
>>>
>>>
>>>Second (and second easiest) part done, the Advanced Operations Manual:
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>>>http://classic-micros.com/iclopd/advancedops/index.html
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>>>
>>Nice one! How long did that little bit o'scanning take?
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>Not too long, really: Probably an hour to hour-and-a-half of slaving over
>the scanner (mostly setting up the contrast/brightness to try to get the
>things OCRable, which I gave up on in the end - more in a mo). About
>another 1/2hr of general tidying up (rotating all the odd pages, since they
>came out upside-down), and about another 1/2hr cobbling together &
>debugging the HTML page.
>
>As for the OCR, I was getting terrible results with CuneiForm '99 (an OCR
>package I actually purchased, damnit). I've now downloaded a thing called
>ImageDock, which does a far far better job. I'm currently OCRing the
>Handbook (i.e. main user manual), one section at a time. Which is taking
>ages, but mainly because I'm sorting the layout so it's pretty similar to
>the actual manual.
>
>Currently, have done section C1 (13 pages + coverette), will do section C2
>tonight (17 pages), etc. I'm going to try to complete one section per day
>(excluding this w/e), which should mean it'll take about 3-4 weeks to complete.
>
>So, if anyone is considering CuneiForm as their OCR package - don't.
>ImageDock is much better.
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>
Project Gutenberg seems to prefer "Abbeyy Fine Reader" for their OCR
work, if you are willing to spend money on the software.
Received on Mon Mar 17 2003 - 15:29:00 GMT