Subj : Copying history
To   : JEAN PARROT
From : JAY EMRIE
Date : Mon Sep 26 2005 12:13 am

JP>        Hello Jay, we were saying ! 

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

JP>        You did not say what size the book is. My work entailed full
JP>  pages, the 8.5 x 11 type. Typewriten so there was a lot of words. It

I did say - tis 6" x 9".

JP>  was done in French and I had a French OCR capable PRG. But there was
JP>  a major problem. My Dad used a typewriter and had an old ribbon on
JP>  it that had some broken fibre and it added some small streaks to
JP>  some letters, this fooled the OCR and gave me so many errors that I
JP>  could not use it. After I got it done in Word-2000, I could OCR the
JP>  pages fine as the characters were sharp and an … would not be
JP>  mistaken for a d or an o with a ribbon barb, for also a d. This
JP>  could be a problem for you too.

No I do not think so. The characters for the great majority are well
defined. The printing was of excellent quality.

JP>        Alan Z. gave me a pristine idea, scan a page then still as an
JP>  image, bloom it to a higher size to give the OCR less margin for
JP>  error. It was like magic here. After this manipulation, I was able
JP>  to dump it to Word in TimesNewRoman 11 and it was close to the same
JP>  size as the original. I will include ( when I make up that parcel )
JP>  a copy of that OCR that will give much better results, it is 1 year
JP>  old and way better than TextBridge. Which one do you intend on
JP>  using ?

I haven't made up my mind yet. I will do some experimenting to try to
determine which produces the best results.

I hope that you have this planned as if you keep the scanned
JP>  pages in an image format, you book would be so "heavy", a scanned
JP>  page can be up to 1 meg but in text format around 10 kbs.

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

JP>                http:\\members.aol.com\jparrot416

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

Now that is good advice - I had not thought of that.

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

That's OK. We all do that from time to time. Some times we are correct.

Jay
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