Has anyone had occasion to use an OCR software that
will reliably recognize long 'esses' rather than
treating them as 'f's'? I have searched the ExLibris
archives, but did not see any thread that mentions
this discussion.
Thank-you,
Renae Satterley
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If anyone has an answer to this, please post to the list. I spent a
tremendous amount of time scanning the index to a twelve volume set from
the last 17th-early 18th century title because it did not have analytics.
One of our poor pages would have to lug all twelve oversize volumes from
another floor if a patron wanted to use it.
Editing was atrocious. Not just the long s, but ligatures, ae, and the
typeface itself were completely beyond the OCR program I used. It would
render the same word in a variety of ways.
Best,
Jeffrey A. Barr
Curator of Rare Books
Smathers Library East
PO Box 117007
University of Florida Libraries
Gainesville, FL 32611
(352) 392-9075 ext. 309
Fax: (352) 846-2746
jefbarr@ufl.edu
http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/rarebook/rarebook.html
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