I've tried to OCR old Fortran Code from DTIC pdf documents. There were
2 big problems;
1. The copies are very poor to start with and all OCR attempts produced
about 75% error rate.
2. Old Fortran code limited variable names to 6 characters so they were
generally not descriptive of what they represented. Some characters in
the Fortran variables sometimes were missing in the printout and made
recovery nearly impossible.
I hope that now gov't contracts require code to be archived
electronically for posterity. Probably never happen.
Doug
On 1/22/2022 8:06 PM, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote:
Can the listings be OCR'ed?
- Ethan
Has anyone ever used Amazon Mechanical Turk to employ typists to type in
old listings of lost code?
Asking for a friend.
--
: Ethan O'Toole
