Raiders of the Lost Archive

INF 385R: Survey of DigitizationMay 3, 2012

Franny Gaede

The Warehouse

The Secret

Tapes

•Jun. 1967 - Dec. 1967•157 pp. of transcripts•Service Set• Copies• Sometimes copies of copies• of copies

•Correlate to 15 audio recordings

The ARchive

Raider

•Clamp• Model: Manfrotto 035RL Super

Clamp with 2908 Standard Stud

•Articulated Arm• Model: Manfrotto 196B-2 143BKT

2-Section Single Articulated Arm with Camera Bracket

•Camera• Model: Canon PowerShot SX130IS

THe

Photographs

•Dimensions: 3k x 4k•Camera Modes• Program (more options)• Automatic white balance ON• Macro• 2 second self-timer• No flash• Left zoom alone*

•Exported as TIFFs• ~36 MB each

The

Findings

•Set-up, image transfer was time intensive

•Extremely quick image capture

•A remote for the camera would be ideal• Canon Hack Development Kit

•Excellent quality• Produced accurate OCR

The Test

vs,

The

Findings

•ABBYY• 1 hour training custom user

pattern• ~40 minutes to correct OCR in

ABBYY and corresponding text file

•Dragon• About 5 minutes for initial

training, an additional 5 minutes to teach it additional words

• ~7 minutes per page, formatting is time intensive

The

Findings

•Conclusions• Dragon works best with minimal

formatting• Re-speaking from audio was

unsuccessful; transcription is to be preferred

• Re-speaking summaries was very efficient

• With some time spent on pattern training, ABBYY was superior in replicating more complicated formatting• Punctuation was a major

issue; esp. the full stop, despite extensive training

• The Warehouse - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LBJ_Library_and_Museum_interior.png

• Archive Raider, Secret Tapes - Personal photos• The Findings, Part I - http://cartoonwallpapersdownload.blogspot.com/

2011/03/lego-indiana-jones-poster.html• The Test - http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/resources/mediakit/

DNS10_MediaKit_Images.html, http://www.abbyy.co.il/?langId=2

http://bit.ly/JyRXAU

image credits