Farewell Photoshop, Hello ABBYY

Today I finally finished editing all the images from the Common Book of Prayer. I resumed processing Wallulahs by putting the pages through the ABBYY OCR software for the rest of the day. I'm working on 1942 right now and have completed approximately half the book so I'm hoping to finish it up tomorrow.

Today I continued working on scrapbook A of Chuck Williams.  As I was scanning the pages I also started to edit them.  Since the scrapbook has many pages it will probably take a couple of days to complete.  

Thursday

I'm still working on the scans from the Common Book of Prayer but I've only got around 75 left so the finish line is definitely in sight. Today I also processed the two Norma Paulus scrapbooks we completed this week with the ABBYY software. Speaking of ABBYY, I anticipate resuming the Wallulahs next week once I finish the scans.

Today I finished scanning and editing the Wallulah yearbooks (1973 & 1974).  I also deleted the old files and replaced them with the new scans.  I went to archives to get the scrapbooks of William Chuck and I began to scan scrapbook A.

Continuing the Common Book of Prayer

This morning I was able to re-scan the pages which had been previously captured out of focus so the scanning of the Common Book of Prayer is complete. I'm still editing the images and I've completed around 400 now so there's approximately 185 left to finish.

I'm still waiting to hear back on how the scans should be edited which could prolong the process. So far, I have been making the scans more representative of the experience of reading the book by leaving the binding and other edges of pages in the image. However, the alternative would be to make the scan a "cleaner" image by removing the binding and other pages seen in the image in order to focus solely on the page itself.

Today I finished editing and renaming the files for Scrapbook #3 of Paulus and also converted the files into JPEG.  I began scanning Wallulah 1974 yearbook and will continue to do so tomorrow.  

Endless Editing

Today I continued to edit scans from the Common Book of Prayer. I've completed 250 of them so I'm almost at halfway. It'd be really nice if I could finish this by the end of the week.

I wasn't able to scan the remaining pages of the book today as planned but we've rescheduled for tomorrow. I spent some time setting-up the scanner and focusing it this morning, but I'll make sure to check it's ready tomorrow as well.

Today I finished editing Paulus Scrapbook #12.  I also scanned and edited some loose photos of Norma Paulus, which I added to Folders 7 & 8.  I began working on editing the Paulus Scrapbook #3 which has about 200 scanned pages so it will possibly take another day or so since I completed about a 1/4 of them today.   

Today I scanned both Paulus scrapbooks and began editing one of them.  Katie helped me figure out how to work the scanning machines and how to edit the images as well.  The third scrapbook took a while to scan since it contained different texts within a page and they all needed to be captured.  I will continue to edit the scrapbook that I began and I will also probably start editing the remaining one.  

Day 1 in the Digital Kingdom

Today was our first day of summer in the Digital Kingdom. At the start of the day, I taught SanJuana how to use the Beast (and all its software), Gregor (i.e. the Epson scanner), and some basic Photoshop skills.

We've made a little progress on the loose Norma Paulus photos, which I think will be good additional practice after the two Paulus scrapbooks are complete.

While SanJuana worked on the scrapbooks, I was able to begin editing the Common Book of Prayer scans and completed around 90 of them. After scanning the remaining pages of the book tomorrow, I'm hoping to continue to make progress on editing the images since there's nearly 600 of them.