[ExI] Tsiolkovsky

[Kelly Anderson]

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:08 AM, spike <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> *>…* *On Behalf Of *Adrian Tymes
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Tsiolkovsky****
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> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:44 AM, spike <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:****
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> >>…I had two cram-full filing cabinets scanned, but never used any of the
> scanned materials because I had no way to index any of it.  What we need is
> some way to read through all that material, some of which was hand-written,
> and create searchable files.****
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> >… The phrase you want to search on is "optical character
> recognition", or just "OCR".  There are many solutions
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> quality.  There are probably some that are both.****
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> We OCRed all of it.  The results were better than nothing, not great.  A
> lot of what I had left in my filing cabinet were hand-written notes from
> meetings.  In the form they existed, they were not accessible anyway, so I
> guess it was no real loss.****
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Was it hand written stuff, or printed stuff? When did you last try OCR with
the best available package? Was a partial index better than nothing?

-Kelly
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