Revision as of 00:08, 8 December 2005

Equipment

All Programs...Hewlett-Packard...Scanjet Scanner 36X0 Series...Photo & Imaging Director
- Choose "Scan Document"
  - Select - Scan for editable text (OCR)? Yes
  - Select - Original contains graphics? No
  - Scan to: "Save to file"
  - Click "Scan"
- Rotate as appropriate with buttons on left hand side
- Click "Accept"
- Click "No" when asked to scan another image
- Save file as <page numbers>.pdf (e.g., 366-367.pdf)
Open pdf file
- Tools...Advanced Editing...TouchUp Object Tool
- Left-click on page to select, then right-click and choose "Edit Image"
- Ignore warning about flattening image (Check "Don't show again" and click "OK")
- File...Save for web...
- Choose "JPEG Low" preset
- Adjust image size to 75%, click "Apply"
- Click "Save"
- Save file as <page numbers>.jpg (e.g., 366-367.jpg)
Upload file to wiki
- Description: Reports of Committe on Foreign Relations 1789-1901 Volume 6 pp<xxx>-<xxx>
Add new page link on wiki MainPage

[[<xxx>-<xxx>]]

Edit new page in wiki, and put in stub code
- for first page, make previous=Main Page, for last page, make next=Main Page

{{Double Page|previous=<xxx>-<xxx>|current=<xxx>-<xxx>|next=<xxx>-<xxx>}}

Click on the "Template:<xxx>-<xxx>" link and copy the text from the pdf
Spell-check and copy edit the text
- fix hyphenated words
- put a blank line before each paragraph
Add the page to the bottom of the Transcribed Morgan Report

{{<xxx>-<xxx>}}

Scanning in at 300ppi, 256 gray shades (8-bit grayscale)
I'm not uploading the raw PDF files, since they're about 5 times as large as the jpgs
Scanning pages 362-1169 (807 pages)
2 pages takes roughly 5 minutes to scan, convert, upload and add text
- 2017.5 minutes total required
- 33.625 hours required
- approximately 1 hour/day available
- about 40 days total
14 pages already scanned (but not proofed)

On any given page, there will be some common navigation:

To help edit, follow the following procedure:

click on the image thumbnail of the page. This will slightly enlarge the image. Click on the image again, and it should be large enough for you to read. Leave this open in a browser window.
In another browser window, open up the same page, and click on the "Template:<xxx>-<xxx>" link. This will bring you to a page where you can edit the text. Click on the "edit" button at the top to begin editing. Compare the text in the editor with the image from the other window, and make corrections if necessary.

Minor procedural notes:

<!--pxxx-->

If a word is hyphenated across a page (inter-rupted, for example), indicate the page break thus:

inter<!--pxxx-->rupted

Remove all hyphenated words
Put one line feed between paragraphs
To indicate italics, use two single quotes before and after the words to be italicized

''This is italics,'' this is not.

 This line is on top of<br/> this one

@@ Line 43: / Line 43: @@
 *Scanning in at 300ppi, 256 gray shades (8-bit grayscale)
 *I'm not uploading the raw PDF files, since they're about 5 times as large as the jpgs
+*Scanning pages 362-1169 (807 pages)
+*2 pages takes roughly 5 minutes to scan, convert, upload and add text
+**2017.5 minutes total required
+**33.625 hours required
+**approximately 1 hour/day available
+**about 40 days total
+*14 pages already scanned (but not proofed)
 =Instructions for Editors=
 On any given page, there will be some common navigation: