RE: Good News-Bulletin Scanning Project

["Kelly D. Norris" <kellydn@frontiernet.net>]

Hi John,

Thanks for the explanation.  I realize now I misunderstood your original
email.  Thanks for the clarification.

--kdn

Horticulturally,
 
Kelly D. Norris
Farm Manager, Rainbow Iris Farm
Editor, Irises: The Bulletin of the American Iris Society
Bedford & Ames, IA 
Zone 4b/5a
Read my blog at: http://www.kellydnorris.com
Check out my bookazine at:  http://www.digthismag.com



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-aisdiscuss@aisboard.org [mailto:owner-aisdiscuss@aisboard.org]
On Behalf Of John I Jones
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 2:18 PM
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Good News-Bulletin Scanning Project

In order for a pdf to be searchablefor specific words phrases etc., ,  
the scan (which is just a pixel by pixel image of the page) the text  
must be converted from pixel image to a true character (like you  
would get in a Word or other text document) thus the OCR.

Thanks

John


On Dec 4, 2010, at 11:17 AM, Kelly D. Norris wrote:

> Just catching up on emails today and wanted to know the reasoning  
> behind OCR
> conversion.  Many botanical gardens and publishers of academic  
> journals
> offer their annals as indexed, searchable, PDFs rather than as text
> documents.  I'm just curious about the justification for the  
> addition of
> that step.
>
> A dusting of snow fell this morning, akin to powdered sugar on a  
> donut, but
> hardly as sweet.
> --kdn
>
> Horticulturally,
>
> Kelly D. Norris
> Farm Manager, Rainbow Iris Farm
> Editor, Irises: The Bulletin of the American Iris Society
> Bedford & Ames, IA
> Zone 4b/5a
> Read my blog at: http://www.kellydnorris.com
> Check out my bookazine at:  http://www.digthismag.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-aisdiscuss@aisboard.org [mailto:owner- 
> aisdiscuss@aisboard.org]
> On Behalf Of John I Jones
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 3:12 PM
> To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
> Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Good News-Bulletin Scanning Project
>
> Susan, et. alia
>
> AIS Bulletin Scanning Project
>
> The AIS Foundation has funded a project to convert our past  
> bulletin issues
> into electronic, searchable documents. Our bulletins will be  
> scanned in
> color and greyscale, converted to text (Optical Character  
> Recognition), made
> into a PDF and indexed. They will be made available online and at  
> the AIS
> Library (and perhaps a few other library locations)
>
> When the scanning company prepares the documents for scanning, they  
> will cut
> them apart by trimming off the binding edge or cutting them along  
> the fold
> (called destructive scanning although the pages themselves are not
> destroyed). There is an option to NOT have them cut apart but it is
> significantly more expensive and we do not have the budget to have  
> them all
> done that way. Certainly those bulletins with very limited  
> availability will
> be non-destructively scanned.
>
> In the attached PDF is a list of AIS Bulletins that I do not have  
> in my
> collection that are needed for the bulletin scanning project. If  
> you have
> any of the issues that are listed and are willing to donate them to  
> the
> project, please email me at jijones@usjoneses.com with the issue  
> number. I
> will send you shipping instructions. I am also going to check with  
> the AIS
> Library to see what issues they can supply.
>
> The biggest impediment to getting the project completed is the lack  
> of these
> bulletins. I will get everything started with the bulleting I have  
> in my
> collection (about 150 out of approx 300 not counting the ones we have
> electronically), and I will get the process started with them very  
> shortly.
>
> Please review the list and let me know what issues you would be  
> willing to
> donate. Your issues can be returned to you afterwards if you wish
>
>
> Thank you
>
> John I Jones
> Chair, AIS Electronic Services Committee
>
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