I've asked this before but we have new people here now. Does anyone know of any software that can help read this. It's an excerpt from one of the midshipman's logs on Discovery1789.
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If it was a proper quality picture with good focus and large resolution I could read this myself.
I can actually read this.
The first two are quite easy to read. I was on my way out the door for supper when I posted this and grabbed the wrong file. Now I can't edit out the first two. The third one is more like what I'm having problems with. It almost seems like their ink was rationed. Their entries start out fairly clean and then get fainter and fainter. Then it looks like they get more ink and it's clear(ish) again. I just thought that this was the kind of thing that AI may be good at.
I have nine(I think) logs and I am actually amazed at the quality of their handwriting. I have tried messing with contrast and brightness but with no luck. here's another excerpt from Lieutenant Peter Puget ( of Puget Sound fame). I can kind of make out some of it with a great deal of study and enlargement but trying to read the whole thing like that gets cumbersome.
I have nine(I think) logs and I am actually amazed at the quality of their handwriting. I have tried messing with contrast and brightness but with no luck. here's another excerpt from Lieutenant Peter Puget ( of Puget Sound fame). I can kind of make out some of it with a great deal of study and enlargement but trying to read the whole thing like that gets cumbersome.
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Perhaps an AI OCR (optical character recognition) program might work; however with the quality of the image the results may not be satisfactory.
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I found this
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It says it will do handwriting. I am modern computer illiterate. Before I sign my life away, does this seem like it may do what I want?
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It says it will do handwriting. I am modern computer illiterate. Before I sign my life away, does this seem like it may do what I want?
The National Archives in Kew has a tutorial on paleography (reading old script). The worst for me are the 17th century contracts as some of them use no punctuation, sometimes every noun is capitalized, f's for s's and &c. I have seen contracts where one page is easy to read and then the next is written by a different scribe and very difficult to read/transcribe.
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I don't think you'll need to sign your life away (just your first born), but like most free trials, you will probably need to give them a credit card # so when the trial period ends you start a Pay-as-you-go. The free trial is the only one of the the 3 available trials that gives you access to TextTract. The question remains, can the program decipher the light handwriting in the image. I hope it works for you.I found this
OCR and Data Extraction Service - Free Amazon Transcribe- AWS
Extract text, handwriting, and data from documents effortlessly with Amazon Textract's advanced OCR capabilities on the AWS Free Tier.
It says it will do handwriting. I am modern computer illiterate. Before I sign my life away, does this seem like it may do what I want?
There is a lot of interesting stuff in those logs. Not that much about the ship which is disappointing but there are some hints here and there. I was impressed by the amount of sail work in a day. Sails up and then a couple hours later sails down. Broken spars very regularly, just about any time the wind got up. Faulty construction of the ship and then the flogging way more often than I thought. Tough life.