Re: [CODE4LIB] Identification of damaged text

2015-12-01 Thread Jesse Martinez
Hi John, That sounds really interesting! Can you share a link to this game or code? Jesse On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Jason Bengtson wrote: > This may be a dumb thought, but I built a game a couple of years ago which > tracked results on a map (on an HTML canvas,

[CODE4LIB] Identification of damaged text

2015-12-01 Thread Christine Mayo
Hi all, I have an interesting assessment issue with some recently digitized newspapers that I wondered if anyone could shed some light on. We sent a batch of 19th century newspapers off to a vendor knowing they weren't in great shape, and now we have to decide whether the resultant images (TIFFs)

Re: [CODE4LIB] Identification of damaged text

2015-12-01 Thread Jason Bengtson
This may be a dumb thought, but I built a game a couple of years ago which tracked results on a map (on an HTML canvas, with the map set as a background with objects drawn on top of it) by counting the pixels of a certain color and comparing them as a percentage against the pixels in the whole