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It's basically all typeprinter font and expertly scanned, what exactly is the issue in using even basic OCR?
by revelation 10y ago
It's basically all typeprinter font and expertly scanned, what exactly is the issue in using even basic OCR?
- ChuckMcM 10y agoI was wondering this too, there are typographic errors on the cards that are being transcribed verbatim one "What is the different between a blond and a bruck[sic]?" "After you lay a brick it does'nt[sic] follow you around for a week." From the perspective of the artifact I could imagine that having the typos there would be reasonable but from the perspective of searchability it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
- whodunser 10y agoThe Smithsonian is transcribing other, much more difficult works. Such as the cursive lab notebook of a historic astrophysicist[0]. I am ridiculously jealous that they are getting this sort of crowd-sourced help to clean data. Compare to hampanda.com (from Deepgram, YC W16) [0] https://transcription.si.edu/transcribe/8634/ECOFD https://transcription.si.edu/transcribe/8634/ECOFD