One guy, a film scanner, OCR and a lot of disks = 6 million pages of historical newspapers on line.

http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html

by markdionne • 18 years ago

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sutro• 18 years ago

I very much hope that this site is not a joke, and that its hilariousness is purely unintentional. For the first time I'm glad that HN saves my upmods. It will take me repeated viewings to fully appreciate this webmaster's unique genius.

Tichy• 18 years ago

Does anybody know what OCR software he used?

jgamman• 18 years ago

it made my eyes hurt.

obdurak• 18 years ago

I applaud the effort, however the scan quality is very low - it's barely readable, even to humans. Also he should highlight the search terms.

jws• 18 years ago

I agree. I would not read those scanned pages for very long, and I certainly can't visual scan the huge pages to find where my search term appears.

When I zoom in, it looks like the bitmap is over compressed with a DCT. There is quite a bit of edge ringing. Perhaps he scanned it better and just mutilated it in the PDF conversion.

markdionne• 18 years ago

The search terms are highlighted in blue for me. Could this be a Flash version issue?

One guy, a film scanner, OCR and a lot of disks = 6 million pages of historical newspapers on line.

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