<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Why not just scan, and do a come-what-may OCR just for full text indexing - if it picks up a diagram and thinks that is a word, who cares, maybe someone will find something cool via typo they didn't expect. <b>No human intervention</b>, just index words to the page. Highly Imperfect but still super useful. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Joel</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br>Sent from my iPhone </div><div><br>On Jul 5, 2017, at 5:42 PM, Bernard Arthur Hutchins Jr <<a href="mailto:bah13@cornell.edu">bah13@cornell.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div>But a manual identifications and 5 minutes/page is no good for the small improvement. Still months of 8-hour days to do 6000 pages. My PDF is still much better already. The equations are still unusable. It makes the same text errors, apparently. Why
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<div>Thanks for trying - useful data point! </div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 5, 2017 6:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bernard Arthur Hutchins Jr; <a href="mailto:mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca">mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [sdiy] Can anyone OCR the AN23.PDF File Here?</font>
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At <a href="http://www.sdiy.info/AN23.rtf" id="LPlnk309394" previewremoved="true">
http://www.sdiy.info/AN23.rtf</a> this took 10 minutes to OCR with <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiZhc6ZmPPUAhVG6RQKHRHpA1UQFggoMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abbyy.com%2Fen-gb%2Fsupport%2Ffinereader-12%2F&usg=AFQjCNHLOjsz219pjjTDqDytG2Cpm9N90w" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#1F497D; text-decoration:none">ABBYY FineReader 12</span></a>, first manually identifying areas of text vs. images. Obviously it still needs further corrections.
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