I was given some old BBS session logs and I scanned them

Re:I was given some old BBS session logs and I scanned them by darklajid on Thursday December 25, 2014 @07:05AM (#8796084)

Working for an OCR company. Dot Matrix is a pain..

That said, would it make sense to give it a try here? Would need to separate the pages/create a TIF file, but I could send this through a good number of engines, I assume. I cannot promise some miracles, but.. worth a try, perhaps.

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Re:I was given some old BBS session logs and I scanned them by Silent700 on Thursday December 25, 2014 @03:37PM (#8797123)

I attempted OCR with Acrobat, which you can inspect by downloading the PDF. Then archive.org does their own OCR (I believe with ABBY?) which is what you'll see if you look at their .txt version. I haven't had a chance to compare them yet.

I wouldn't expect much from OCRing dot matrix, though I'd be happy for others with access to other engines to give it a try.

Someday I'd like to get all the messages into a browsable form on a website. Hell, we can crowd-source transcription if we have to.

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Re:I was given some old BBS session logs and I scanned them by Gracana on Thursday December 25, 2014 @02:35PM (#8796974)

I would have thought dot matrix would be easy. Few characters and fixed spacing and all...

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