One guy, a film scanner, OCR and a lot of disks = 6 million pages of historical newspapers on line.

Re:One guy, a film scanner, OCR and a lot of disks = 6 milli... by obdurak on Thursday April 03, 2008 @07:37AM (#153808)

I applaud the effort, however the scan quality is very low - it's barely readable, even to humans. Also he should highlight the search terms.

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Re:One guy, a film scanner, OCR and a lot of disks = 6 milli... by jws on Thursday April 03, 2008 @11:55AM (#153918)

I 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.

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Re:One guy, a film scanner, OCR and a lot of disks = 6 milli... by markdionne on Friday April 04, 2008 @06:02PM (#155289)

The search terms are highlighted in blue for me. Could this be a Flash version issue?

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