[Web4lib] RE: sharpening images and OCR

Wed Nov 26 12:18:47 EST 2008

Hi John, Photoshop is definitely the best for editing photos as it ha a lot of options for cropping. It can be tricky to use as its a powerful program with a lot of features so I'd recommend some training, self-training or a course....Abby Fine reader is the industry standard for OCR. You'll want to use high-res JPGs though as TIFFs are too large for the web.....good for archiving though. 

Putting Content Online: A Practical Guide for Libraries by Mark Jordan is a great book for starting digital collections.

Good luck!

Chris / Ottawa Public Library

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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:30:01 -0600
From: "McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]" <gerrymck at iastate.edu>
Subject: [Web4lib] This Is Not A Web | WWWW
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Artists/

What Would Dali Do ?

....Clean/Clear Your Mind Of All That You Know (or Think You Know) About The World Wide Web ....

... In Reading About Barcelona And Its  Art / Artists / Architecture ... It Occurred To Me That The Time Has Come To Rethink The Nature Of The Web And The Internet ...

What Would Dali Do ?

>From The Perspectives Of Dali / Gaudi / Miro / Piscasso / ... How Could / Should / Would The WWW Be Configured / Structured / Organized ...

[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dalí ]

[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Gaudi ]

[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Miró ]

[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasso ]

What Would Dali Do ?

>>> I'm Not Interested  In Art / Architecture Content On The Current Web Per Se ...

But In A ReConceptualized Web  = How Would Such Artists/ Architects Envision The WWW ... <<<

[BTW: I'm Not Interested In Virtual Realities Per Se ... [e.g. Second Life]

What Would Dali Do ?

/ Examples / Samples  / Thoughts / Would Be Most Appreciated ....

It Could Be SINful [ http://tinyurl.com/5rgff6  ] ...

What Would Dali Do ?

BTW: I Plan To Attend The e-Society Conference In Barcelona [ http://www.esociety-conf.org/ ] in late February 2009 / Does AnyOneElse Plan To Go ... ?

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan

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What Would Dali Do ?

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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:59:06 +0000
From: John Fitzgibbon <jfitzgibbon at Galwaylibrary.ie>
Subject: [Web4lib] sharpening images and OCR
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Hi,

We have just captured photographs from old newspapers that are on microfilm. We are about to put these images on the Web. What software is best for enhancing these images? Sometimes, there are black lines going down through the image.

A second related question is this: we are hoping to OCR some articles from a TIFF image thus created. What OCR package costing fewer than 2,000 dollars might be best for this task. I suspect that none of them will be good enough because the original newspaper was in such a poor state when microfilmed, but, I thought I would investigate it anyway.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Regards John

John Fitzgibbon

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