Conal-Tuohy
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3 years ago Just to confirm my understanding; these footnotes would be just placeholders for the images; so if any footnote contains text which appears to be an image file name (i.e. matching the pattern yy-mm-dd_image0x.jpg) then I should produce TEI output in which the footnote has been replaced with a TEI element which references the image file.
I have a suggested tweak which would be to include a description of the image in the footnote, along with the image file name. e.g. rather than 'For sketch, see yy-mm-dd_image01.jpg.' in the footnote text I would suggest excluding the filler words "For" and "see" and say simply Sketch of plant yy-mm-dd_image01.jpg (assuming for the sake of the example that it was a sketch of a plant). That would make it easy and reliable to detect the image file name (by pattern-matching), and the image description would be everything else in the footnote.
This would allow me to produce the following TEI:
<figure>
<graphic url="yy-mm-dd_image01.jpg"/>
<figDesc>Sketch of plant</figDesc>
</figure>... and this could be converted to HTML which would allow vision-impaired readers who couldn't see the image itself to get access to the image description.
LucasHorseshoeBend
I have created a sample set of files with images.
Can you test the approach before I go through all the letters and extract image files? The test set has a range of features: embedded small images, drawings on seperate sheets; pure line drawings, and some that have graduated tones, including photographs.
The sample letters, and the images, are in the folder dropbox/Conal working files/copies of M letters with images. There are two folders inside that one: letter copies and images. The images have been saved with file names of the form yy-mm-dd_image0x.jpg. The letters have been saved with a file name yy-mm-dd-_status_IMAGETEST.doc.
The point in the transcription where an images appears has a footnote in various forms to suit the situation but including in all cases the name of the relevant image file, for example, 'For sketch, see yy-mm-dd_image01.jpg.'
There is one file with 10 images, hence the form of the file name; although I don't think it necessary to have them all with a leading zero, it is a useful way for me to be able to keep track. If it causes you problems I haven't foreseen, I can change the format by removing the leading zeros where less than 10 image files are associated with a text file.
I hope that this is sufficient to test your processes on a set small enough to be manageable, but large enough to be representative.