26 Feb
2005
26 Feb
'05
10:12 p.m.
Bowerbird asked:
first, jon, since you've been makin' some big noises about "my antonia", could you please make available a .zip file containing all of your image-scans and the o.c.r. output?
The 600 dpi bitonal page scans of My Antonia (as PNG, archived in ZIP) now available via: http://www.openreader.org/myantonia I encourage others to download the ZIP to preserve the page scans. But be forewarned the ZIP file is 49 megs in size. Using one of the CCITT bitonal compression algorithms it would be possible to do better with lossless compression, maybe 50% better than the currently used PNG. But virtually everyone can view PNG files, while those CCITT algorithms (usually encapsulated in TIFF) are oftentimes obscure. Jon