User talk:PJvanMill

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Do you remember a few years back when you extracted a book from archive.org for me?

Do you think you could do that for a few other similar books? DS (talk) 14:31, 3 March 2024 (UTC)


 * @DragonflySixtyseven: A bit of a late response, I'm only seeing this now as I haven't been active lately. Yes, I certainly could; I don't have much time for Wikipedia at the moment, but I could probably do roughly 1 book each weekend? Kind regards from  PJvanMill ) talk ( 23:38, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
 * That's very kind of you. Finding suitably-formatted texts isn't as easy as it could be. Here's one - "Who's Who in the world", 1912 edition. If you aren't comfortable with putting it in my userspace, create it in your own and let me know when it's ready, and I'll move it over myself. DS (talk) 13:16, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * @DragonflySixtyseven This book seems intractable for the moment. The OCR'ed text given by the IA is of quite a bad quality. To give you an idea, in just the first few names the OCR reads "William:" as "IVIIllamt", "Gordon:" as "CSordoat" and "ABBEY, Edwin Austin:" as "ARBRY, Bdwin Ansttni". Basically, it seems to have trouble with font used for the names in combination with the printing.
 * I'm looking into doing OCR on it myself, but I'm not sure I can get it working or how long it would take. Maybe you have a different book? Kind regards from  PJvanMill ) talk ( 20:00, 12 May 2024 (UTC)