Pauline wrote:
Jon Noring wrote:
I'm not sure if I can give out the ftp user:pass at 'dpscans', since it was given to me in confidence. If you are interested, email Jon Niehof <jon_niehof@yahoo.com> for possible access since they were dumped into his folder, 'jnik' (he's on travel, so has limited access the next week or two.)
Please don't give out the password. The FTP area is to support the loading of image & text files for DP projects only.
Well, I didn't. <smile/> I surmised the user:pass was not intended for public use since a complete search of the pgdp.net site did not bring it up. It just said that the ftp space was for uploading projects, as you noted, and that those wishing to submit stuff need to be given the user:pass from the project leader.
The raw scans total about 1.22 gigs, while the partially cleaned-up scans (still 600 dpi greyscale) take up about 680 megs.
I can make the files available on the DP test server via HTTP if someone lets me know what is required. It would be appreciated if such requests are sent to the DP site admins in future. At the moment we don't have the disk space to support files which aren't being loaded into DP projects.
I'm in the process, as is clear from my various posts on this topic, to produce a "high-quality" and portable cleaned up version in DjVu for general direct reading by the public (a "reader", and not just fodder for OCR.) Also, the final cleaned-up bitonal images (used to produce the DjVu version) will be made available, possibly along with the raw greyscale scans. As Bowerbird requested, they will be uploaded to archive.org, and possibly made available via a ftp site associated with one of my domains (and administered by James Linden). Patience. It's just one book out of several million public domain books. But it certainly is one of the more interesting public domain books, and deserves some effort to clean up the scans for direct use. Jon Noring