----- Original Message ----- From: "Aidan Jones" <> To: "Gareth" <>; "Dyfed List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 1:50 PM Subject: Re: [Dyfed] NLW scanning Welsh newspapers to put online PS Add to the list of potential problems when submitting old newspapers to OCR: (i) Fairly frequent use of damaged type faces (ii) Need for more rapid proof reading - greater likelihood that words might have been misspelt (or have used archaic spelling).

I never really envisaged Ancestry using any of the established OCR systems. I felt there might be some significant re-work in the pattern recognition algorithms and the lexicographical dictionaries they use - plus some sort intelligent learning approach. Or maybe that is just the triumph of hope over experience. Brian -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Aidan Jones Sent: 18 March 2012 14:19 To: Gareth; Dyfed List Subject: Re: [Dyfed] NLW scanning Welsh newspapers - postscript ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aidan Jones" <> To: "Gareth" <>; "Dyfed List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 1:50 PM Subject: Re: [Dyfed] NLW scanning Welsh newspapers to put online PS Add to the list of potential problems when submitting old newspapers to OCR: (i) Fairly frequent use of damaged type faces (ii) Need for more rapid proof reading - greater likelihood that words might have been misspelt (or have used archaic spelling).