[Coco] [Color Computer] The Rainbow Magazine - online on the Internet Archive

tim lindner tlindner at macmess.org
Thu Aug 7 17:54:54 EDT 2014


On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Sean <badfrog at gmail.com> wrote:

> Whatever happened to the OCR project?  The one where you could help out by
> checking blocks of text.
> Some searching of the archives helped me find the old URL to it, it was:
> http://cocomag.dyndns.org/TheRainbow.shtml


That was my project.

I brought it down because the automatic OCR Aaron was doing was a lot
better than I expected.

I still believe a human curated would have produced a better archive.

But the effort involved didn't seem justified when automatic OCR is as good
as it is.

-- 
tim lindner


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