[aklug] We're going to let it go, thanks for responses - Re: Anyone interested in a job importing 24k printed emails in Juneau/Anchorage into a database?

Apparently every news outlet and their freakin' cousin are already there
or soon going to be for both electronic and visual scanning, so we're
going to save our money and just send some reporters with buckets of
Alaska history down there to spot-check and listen to what everyone else
is doing.

Thanks for the suggestions, thoughts, recommendations and entertaining
responses

--Jason

On 06/08/2011 03:41 PM, Mark Neyhart wrote:
> This was my first question as well...
>
> Does anybody know of a linux OCR tool which can convert images to
> text? I've found references to Tesseract, but am not sure if it is
> active. I've got a bunch of pages which have been scanned to PDF, and
> would like to be able to make them searchable.
>
> Mark Neyhart
>
> Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
>> First question: WHY ON EARTH are they printed? Why can't they give them
>> to you on a CD or DVD?
>>
>> j
>>
>> On Wednesday 08 June 2011, Jason McEachen elucidated thus:
>>> This Friday at 9am the State of Alaska is going to have a couple
>>> boxes of printed emails in Juneau for me to have, and a hand truck to
>>> help carry them. We could also pick them up at the Anchorage Airport
>>> at 3pm.
>>>
>>> What I'd like to do is somehow import them into a database and set up
>>> a quick and easy web-based interface to allow searches.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help,
>>>
>>> --Jason
>
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