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Scripting an OCR text archiver for Trove
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Hi, Ridcully.
It's hard to overstate the importance of Trove for Australian history researchers. One of the stories on my history website (http://www.circularheadhistory.info/forests/welcome1.html) is based on a 1924 Royal Commission report, and for 30 or so years pretty much all I knew was in that report. When Trove launched, I could quickly go backward and forward from1924, tracing leads and composing a much wider history. The final set of Trove snippets for that story is 150 000 words, in a single text file annotated as I describe in the Linux Rain piece.
Another Australian has built a similar annotator which loads the clipboard with the OCR text, but he's built it as a Firefox extension launched from the right-click menu. It works (I think) but is Firefox-dependent and doesn't append the text to a file.
It's hard to overstate the importance of Trove for Australian history researchers. One of the stories on my history website (http://www.circularheadhistory.info/forests/welcome1.html) is based on a 1924 Royal Commission report, and for 30 or so years pretty much all I knew was in that report. When Trove launched, I could quickly go backward and forward from1924, tracing leads and composing a much wider history. The final set of Trove snippets for that story is 150 000 words, in a single text file annotated as I describe in the Linux Rain piece.
Another Australian has built a similar annotator which loads the clipboard with the OCR text, but he's built it as a Firefox extension launched from the right-click menu. It works (I think) but is Firefox-dependent and doesn't append the text to a file.
Hi Bob Mesibov....if your mentioned "Another Australian" has published his annotator for Firefox, it would be worth knowing where it can be obtained ?
Sorry! The add-on is at http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cite-trove/?sr...
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But you'll be amazed at what you can find. As a child, my grandmother actually DID fight a crocodile off from attacking their rowing boat in N Qld....all the Olufson children used a rowboat daily on the Bloomfield River to get to school. From then on, they had to use the much longer bush track.