I have a few pre 68 Jowetteers, approx October 66 on wards up until about 1975. Surprisingly in order too!
I also have a few year books too. An old pre war register too somewhere around.
Will the size of the paper be an issue? (Not technically minded in the slightest!) The older Jowetteers are a little bigger than A4.
Ancient Jowetteer - What are the odds?
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Re: Ancient Jowetteer - What are the odds?
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Re: Ancient Jowetteer - What are the odds?
I do have some 1966 and 1967 Jowetteers but they are in quite poor condition and too large to go in the scanner I have
have just purchased a javilin and will need all the help i can get
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Re: Ancient Jowetteer - What are the odds?
Hi Keith
I scanned December 1990 Jowetteer, as it was on the desk at work. It's printed black and white, apart from the front page which is black, white and red.
I have a big box of assorted issues someone gave me with a front axle, but they are in storage waiting for our house move . . . . . . still
I used PDF-XChange Editor, as a free evaluation version. No real reason, just the first I came across and I was only looking to have a play.
The OCR looks pretty good in terms of accuracy. I was surprised, as some of the original printing wasn't the best and some of the fonts very small. Most pages seem to have a different font for some reason! I didn't have time to experiment with different resolutions or other settings, I just was interested to see if it worked.
Having got the old batch scanner going, I suddenly remembers our big professional photocopier has a batch feed and scan to file, so I used that. I scanned it as a tiff file at 200dpi. I'll email the tiff and PDF it created if you want to have a look.
As I said, the scanning only takes around 3 seconds. Removing the staples with a little gizmo I have on the desk wasn't too bad, so I guess once you got your eye in, to pull the staples, scan it and re staple about a minute each. As you say, the pain comes with doing the OCR and indexing. Unfortunately, time is against me until the end of the year, but I could get the scanning underway if no one else has access to a batch scanner and someone if happy to do the OCR etc. It's quite a job a page at a time with a flatbed! The desktop batch scanner will ultimately go for recycling soon, so that's an option if someone wants to borrow it.
I scanned December 1990 Jowetteer, as it was on the desk at work. It's printed black and white, apart from the front page which is black, white and red.
I have a big box of assorted issues someone gave me with a front axle, but they are in storage waiting for our house move . . . . . . still
I used PDF-XChange Editor, as a free evaluation version. No real reason, just the first I came across and I was only looking to have a play.
The OCR looks pretty good in terms of accuracy. I was surprised, as some of the original printing wasn't the best and some of the fonts very small. Most pages seem to have a different font for some reason! I didn't have time to experiment with different resolutions or other settings, I just was interested to see if it worked.
Having got the old batch scanner going, I suddenly remembers our big professional photocopier has a batch feed and scan to file, so I used that. I scanned it as a tiff file at 200dpi. I'll email the tiff and PDF it created if you want to have a look.
As I said, the scanning only takes around 3 seconds. Removing the staples with a little gizmo I have on the desk wasn't too bad, so I guess once you got your eye in, to pull the staples, scan it and re staple about a minute each. As you say, the pain comes with doing the OCR and indexing. Unfortunately, time is against me until the end of the year, but I could get the scanning underway if no one else has access to a batch scanner and someone if happy to do the OCR etc. It's quite a job a page at a time with a flatbed! The desktop batch scanner will ultimately go for recycling soon, so that's an option if someone wants to borrow it.
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Re: Ancient Jowetteer - What are the odds?
Thanks Barry.
I think 200 dpi is too coarse for archive scan , 600dpi is better. This not only gives better OCR especially with the blue Gestetner print of early mags. but also can help with the line drawings on these editions. File size can be reduced after proof reading an before loading to website.
We need a scanner to do foolscap 330x200mm as pre-82 are that size.
I think 200 dpi is too coarse for archive scan , 600dpi is better. This not only gives better OCR especially with the blue Gestetner print of early mags. but also can help with the line drawings on these editions. File size can be reduced after proof reading an before loading to website.
We need a scanner to do foolscap 330x200mm as pre-82 are that size.
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