tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730930067468816440.post7655543714991713580..comments2024-03-20T16:54:00.918-05:00Comments on Collaborative Manuscript Transcription: Progress Report: GitHub, Archive.org Integration, and General AvailabilityBen W. Brumfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363399128262210534noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730930067468816440.post-4628035795855853642011-02-05T19:40:01.918-06:002011-02-05T19:40:01.918-06:00Jason,
If your obituaries are printed--and I assu...Jason,<br /><br />If your obituaries are printed--and I assume they are--your best starting point is OCR software. This will convert the text in the images into plaintext, so you'll only have to proofread and correct the automatic transcriptions. Many scanning tools do OCR, including some commercially available Adobe products. Harder to use (but free!) is the Internet Archive community texts project, in which you'd upload your PDF and let their server software do the OCR for you.<br /><br />I'm no expert on this--after all, you can't OCR handwritten material--but that's the advice I'd pass along.<br /><br />Best of luck!Ben W. Brumfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08363399128262210534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730930067468816440.post-63649677056728555282011-02-05T18:03:33.973-06:002011-02-05T18:03:33.973-06:00Greetings Ben, I am hoping that you can help me. I...Greetings Ben, I am hoping that you can help me. I am sitting on pages upon page of scans of obituaries. The obits are very clean (neat, orderly and easy to read) and currently combined into a PDF file. Is there some sort of software that I can use that will allow be to transcribe these obits?Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09103343326330830534noreply@blogger.com