Roger, I wrote a manual on e-books for the One Laptop Per Child project which might give you some ideas on scanning magazines and cleaning up images, etc. You can check out the relevant chapter here: http://en.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/scanning-book-pages/ James Simmons On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Roger Lee <rrjlee@gmail.com> wrote:
I've previously completed a reasonable number of proof-readings of book content and now I've begun preparing the content of a large annual of weekly magazines - I have already received my copyright clearance.
My annual was published in 1905-6 and is in fair condition, but not suitable for flat-bed scanning; the pages are somewhat yellowed. I'm using a LG LSM-100 Scanner Mouse and I've completed initial scanning of the first issue of this magazine. I'm creating separate PNG files for each complete page and of each distinct illustration; these need further work. Based on my previous proof-reading, I'm working on correcting the initial OCR text in plain text files. I'm using the folder structure as follows...
Annual pngs (of annual only) text (of annual only) Issue 1 pngs (of Issue 1 only) text (of Issue 1 only) (etc)
Each weekly magazine comprises fictional and non-fictional material. Initially, I plan to treat each issue of about 16 pages as a project and the annual as a separate project. I'm also thinking that where articles are episodic, I feel it is worth considering side projects in which the episodes for a given article are assembled as a unit. The annual has a good table of contents using page numbers; in the ebook format, the page numbers might usefully be converted into issue number and article-in-issue number (like 1395.1). In the first issue, I've seen only one page reference to an issue pre-dating this annual.
In the Project Gutenberg catalog, I see there are quite a number of other magazines, so I can use them as a guide though I realize there are experienced final-formatters out there. I would welcome pointers to relevant information to help me proceed and, if possible, contact with someone who has worked on this kind of material.
How do I go about creating the project structure for others to help with proof-reading, etc, in due course?
Where can I find advice on cleaning up illustrations?
Thanks for your patience, Roger
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