Tomism
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Tomism
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artydont
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1 year ago hi Tom
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Top OCR priority is to determine whether Ira Gollobin book needs to be rescanned before loan of hardcopy has to be returned.
I hope to provide an answer within a few days.
But if not, others will need to install on either Windows or Mac:
ABBY FineReader
Do learn how to use it NOW so we can be sure to process the book before loan expires.
Start here:
https://pdf.abbyy.com/media/1676/users_guide.pdf
Continue via resource center etc:
https://pdf.abbyy.com/resources/
I will be reading the ABBY docs too as probably better for understanding principles of what to do with Tesseract than any docs specific to it.
I don't use Windows or Apple but did notice the Windows version is available via torrents for longer than the free trial version:
https://therarbg.com/get-posts/keywords:ABBY:category:Apps/
found magnet link here:
https://therarbg.com/post-detail/087b52/abby-fine-reader-moebius88/
You need to have a torrent client to use the magnet link provided there. Also need to have working backup and restore in case file from unknown provider does damage.
Somebody else should find Apple version.
Rescan
If it turns out a rescan might be useful it would be best to start with the backmatter. We won't need the frontmatter with Library of Congress catalog card info since that is available online.
Automated Processing But don't worry. ONLY finding out whether the scan resolution was sufficient is urgent (and might need ABBY FineReader software so requires reading its docs now).
Automated text processing after OCR is now "standard". I will write up some notes later. But here are some links for those curious:
https://www.digitisation.eu/knowledge/digitisation-tools/
https://guides.nyu.edu/tesseract/home
https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2023/18522/pdf/OASIcs-SLATE-2023-8.pdf
https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/ocr-fileformat
https://pdfa.org/resources/
Advanced and Translation Processing
Siemens, Ray_Schreibman, Susan_Susan Schreibman - A Companion to Digital Literary Studies-Wiley (2013).epub
http://library.lol/main/FB9723E570F187CF9FB78D231D0C80CD
https://companions.digitalhumanities.org/DLS/
https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=1CCF28190F6B9DEAF35AFC93F17D3DEC
Available Software
File Sharing
There are many pages in the wikipedia series on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing
Philosophically and politically important to understand the implications of this stuff even if not able to get into technical details. We CANNOT be old-fangled.
Note especially the overlap with open science, academic publishing, wikimedia etc and:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive
Also be aware of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HathiTrust
https://www.hathitrust.org/
Later OCR work
Most stuff we are likely to work on for legally producing "Companion to" volumes probably won't need OCR scan and proof reading as that is readily available online.
One that probably will need scanning (but is not urgent like figuring out how to determine scan resolution) is more recent translation of this that only has the earlier translation publicly available online:
The road to power : political reflections on growing into the revolution / Karl Kautsky ; edited by John H. Kautsky ; new translation by Raymond Meyer.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003077628