I'm writing a book. I have nearly 500 old newspaper sources of wildly varying quality and formats, as well as journal entries and the like. You'd think it'd be as simple as OCR, but OOOOHHHH NOOOO! I'm so happy someone understands my nightmare.
Curious whether you had luck with any of these? I found Transcribus awhile back and heard angels singing. It seemed so perfect. But I didn't have much better luck than with OCR options out of the box and custom training a model seems like nearly as much work as just transcribing, and I'm skeptical the result wouldn't be flawed and require a lot of manual fixes.
I have had pretty good luck with it, but also think about considering trying ChatGPT now that it’s got vision. There are now libraries for typed print on transcribus. Worth a shot, since you get 500 free credits.
Yeah it’s nuts. However there are a huge number of open-access journals, and they are becoming more common. BMC/PLOS are the big ones in my field (biology/genetics).
PLOS still charges a fee if your institution is not part of their “network”, and it’s not cheap, but their articles are free for all to access.
What we see probably isn’t even the full image, either. They probably put more details and colors on it and stuff, that’s just the outline. How else do you teach your buddies about what bears look like?
Can we get a Sci Hub link? Not all of us have good library access, or want to enrich publishers who leech the work of scientists who aren’t even compensated for it.
Thanks for the tips, but like the other poster, I just want a working link. I’m not going to research SciHub replacements to read a single jokey study.
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