Subj : Copying history
To   : JAY EMRIE
From : JEAN PARROT
Date : Sun Sep 25 2005 11:58 am

        Hello Jay, we were saying ! 

 JE> 600+ I said 900 earlier - goofed again as usual. No way do I want to
 JE> type all this in!

        You did not say what size the book is. My work entailed full
  pages, the 8.5 x 11 type. Typewriten so there was a lot of words. It
  was done in French and I had a French OCR capable PRG. But there was
  a major problem. My Dad used a typewriter and had an old ribbon on
  it that had some broken fibre and it added some small streaks to
  some letters, this fooled the OCR and gave me so many errors that I
  could not use it. After I got it done in Word-2000, I could OCR the
  pages fine as the characters were sharp and an … would not be
  mistaken for a d or an o with a ribbon barb, for also a d. This
  could be a problem for you too.

        Alan Z. gave me a pristine idea, scan a page then still as an
  image, bloom it to a higher size to give the OCR less margin for
  error. It was like magic here. After this manipulation, I was able
  to dump it to Word in TimesNewRoman 11 and it was close to the same
  size as the original. I will include ( when I make up that parcel )
  a copy of that OCR that will give much better results, it is 1 year
  old and way better than TextBridge. Which one do you intend on
  using ? I hope that you have this planned as if you keep the scanned
  pages in an image format, you book would be so "heavy", a scanned
  page can be up to 1 meg but in text format around 10 kbs.

        One more advice, do not give up, you will be quite haapy with
  yourself when you are done. Look at my site:

                http:\\members.aol.com\jparrot416

        Click on G‚n‚alogie and have a look, it is in .pdf. I think
  that you ought to use Acrobat too and lock it so nobody will attempt
  to vary the "Master" document.

        I am not trying to talk like an expert here.  ;-)

     
       Again in Kamouraska !
  Have a great day !
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