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One guy, a film scanner, OCR and a lot of disks = 6 million pages of historical newspapers on line.
- sutro 19y agoI very much hope that this site is not a joke, and that its hilariousness is purely unintentional. For the first time I'm glad that HN saves my upmods. It will take me repeated viewings to fully appreciate this webmaster's unique genius.
- Tichy 19y agoDoes anybody know what OCR software he used?
- jgamman 19y agoit made my eyes hurt.
- obdurak 19y agoI applaud the effort, however the scan quality is very low - it's barely readable, even to humans. Also he should highlight the search terms.
- jws 19y agoI agree. I would not read those scanned pages for very long, and I certainly can't visual scan the huge pages to find where my search term appears. When I zoom in, it looks like the bitmap is over compressed with a DCT. There is quite a bit of edge ringing. Perhaps he scanned it better and just mutilated it in the PDF conversion.
- markdionne 19y agoThe search terms are highlighted in blue for me. Could this be a Flash version issue?