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From: "Don. V. Weston." <>
Subject: Re: Census 1851 & 1871
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 13:55:26 +0000 (GMT)


On Wed 03 Nov, Ann Woolf wrote:
> Thanks for the replies Don & Glen.
>
> I am using a demo version of a programme which is excellent. It will
> scan columns straight into Excel, or Word if you wanted, and from there
> the possibilities are immense!
>
> Problem is the registered version costs $300 Australian!
>
> I can scan a page and have it finished and checked all within 10 minutes
> which isn't bad. I can also add a year born column and anything else
> required once it is in Excel
>
> I wonder whose permission I would have to get to sell it as I would like
> something back from the time put in and eventual cost of the program
> when my demo time runs out on it.
>
> The As of the 1851 take up 390 Kb so that isn't too great, but I don't
> have a CD burner as yet to put it all on one item. I'll press on as I
> want the sort facility.
>
> Any input would be much appreciated.
>
> Ann

Hi,
Just did a count on my method and the 'A's of 1851 work out at about 129K's
just on 33% in size of your program. I'm just rewriting my program to deal
with more of the pertubations in the original and improve the sort maths.
Thus far a page should be out 100% correct and formatted will probably take
about 5 mins. (I have to change a few bits after scanning which takes a bit
of extra time manually which I will probably write into my program while
I'm at it). The actual formating and sorting for a page takes
les than the blink of an eye!

All this of course depends on how accurate the ORC scanning is. I'm running
at 100% 99% of the time which helps. I've not had anywhere near that accuracy
on any PC ORC software thus far.

A tip..... scanning the Indexes at less than 300 dpi is sure to result in
poor character recognition and a failure from the word go.

DON.


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