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This is a good idea, but transcription for me is a must. Reading the handwritten (sometimes typed) scans of the prisoners writing is just too irritating for me
by spudlyo 16y ago
This is a good idea, but transcription for me is a must. Reading the handwritten (sometimes typed) scans of the prisoners writing is just too irritating for me, a person who increasingly relies on Readability to read just about anything on the web.
The last time I looked at freeware OCR software, the accuracy left much to be desired -- but I think it'd be a start, at least on the typed correspondence.
- pyre 16y agoIt is transcribed. Just scroll past all of the scanned pages. And seriously, some of the penmanship is pretty good. (e.g. This one seemed very stylized to me, and a lot better than the chicken scratch that a lot of people write with: http://betweenthebars.org/posts/27/scarred-walls-and-more http://betweenthebars.org/posts/27/scarred-walls-and-more)
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- spudlyo 16y agoOh I see. Some are and some aren't. I guess transcription is something the site's community helps out with.