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  • Volunteers to transcribe AberMUD listing

    From lars.brinkhoff@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 29 23:30:45 2019
    Hello,

    There's a chance a printout of the original AberMUD will be scanned.
    I'm looking for volunteers to help type it in. Please notify me if
    you're interested.

    Best regards,
    Lars Brinkhoff

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  • From Pabst Blue Ribbon@21:1/5 to lars.brinkhoff@gmail.com on Thu Jan 31 00:18:18 2019
    <lars.brinkhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
    Hello,

    There's a chance a printout of the original AberMUD will be scanned.
    I'm looking for volunteers to help type it in. Please notify me if
    you're interested.

    Best regards,
    Lars Brinkhoff


    Type it in? There's a software for that since '90s or even earlier. You
    mean proofread it?

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  • From lars.brinkhoff@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Pabst Blue Ribbon on Wed Jan 30 20:05:48 2019
    Pabst Blue Ribbon wrote:
    Type it in? There's a software for that since '90s or even earlier. You
    mean proofread it?

    I have transcribed a few listings, and my experience with OCR software hasn't been great.

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  • From Doug McIntyre@21:1/5 to Pabst Blue Ribbon on Wed Jan 30 23:24:28 2019
    Pabst Blue Ribbon <pabst@blue.ribbon> writes:
    <lars.brinkhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
    There's a chance a printout of the original AberMUD will be scanned.
    I'm looking for volunteers to help type it in. Please notify me if
    you're interested.

    Best regards,
    Lars Brinkhoff


    Type it in? There's a software for that since '90s or even earlier. You
    mean proofread it?

    Only if the printout is clean enough to be recognizable by the OCR
    software. 600dpi laserjet printout is a world apart from a 9-pin
    dot-matrix photocopied three generations....



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    Doug McIntyre
    doug@themcintyres.us

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