Mattis said > Finally I got hold of the sources for the PDP-11 SPACE WAR that was > submitted to DECUS by Bill Seiler. > > The format is scans of the PAL-11S listing output. It is easy to crop the > image to only contain actual source. Then running OCR on it. Tried a few > online versions and tesseract. > > The problem is that the paper that the listing is printed on has lines. > Very black lines. It makes the OCR go completely crazy. Source lines > without black lines OCR ok. The others do not. The files need massive > amount of manual intervention. > > Does anyone have an idea how to process files like this? > > A good way to remove the black lines? > > There are only 19 source files with three or four pages each so I don't > think it makes sense to try to train tesseract to do it (training tesseract > seems to be a huge undertaking). > > https://i.imgur.com/dvY973s.png > > /Mattis
Scan them all as-is, put them up and 'crowd source' this list to divvy up a bunch of pages per person who could then use their favourite graphics program to paint out the lines and send you back the cleaned-up images? I could do a few. Steve.
