james-

work is coming along fine on the file, but i'm sorry that
i haven't gotten it turned back to you sooner than this...

i got caught up in some other things, plus the clean-up
is taking longer than i'd hoped it would, mostly because
the typography of the book really wasn't quite up to snuff.

in the meantime, you can always work on the family-trees.

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to make this post more widely applicable, i can probably
reiterate the point i usually describe at the very beginning:
take care to select a well-done book which will scan nicely.
or, if you're using pre-existing o.c.r., make sure it's good.

otherwise, you might well have to spend a lot more time.

for instance, on this book which james is digitizing now,
he faces the triple whammy -- poor p-book typography,
bad scans, and internet archive's careless text handling
(where the book is missing em-dashes, utf8, and italics).

so even after all the time he and i have spent cleaning it,
my guess is that he would still be finished with it sooner
if he were to start from scratch and do the job correctly...

-bowerbird