Roger,<div><br></div><div>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:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/scanning-book-pages/">http://en.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/scanning-book-pages/</a></div><div><br></div><div>James Simmons</div><div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Roger Lee <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:rrjlee@gmail.com">rrjlee@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I&#39;ve previously completed a reasonable number of proof-readings of book content and now I&#39;ve begun preparing the content of a large annual of weekly magazines - I have already received my copyright clearance.<br><br>

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&#39;m using a LG LSM-100 Scanner Mouse and I&#39;ve completed initial scanning of the first issue of this magazine. I&#39;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&#39;m working on correcting the initial OCR text in plain text files. I&#39;m using the folder structure as follows...<br>

<br>Annual<br>   pngs (of annual only)<br>   text (of annual only)<br>   Issue 1<br>      pngs (of Issue 1 only)<br>      text (of Issue 1 only)<br>   (etc)<br>
<br>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&#39;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&#39;ve seen only one page reference to an issue 
pre-dating this annual.<br>
<br>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.<br>

<br>How do I go about creating the project structure for others to help with proof-reading, etc, in due course?<br><br>Where can I find advice on cleaning up illustrations?<br><br>Thanks for your patience,<br>Roger<br>
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