Comments on: Adding more horsepower to Footnote search http://blog.fold3.com/adding-more-horsepower-to-footnote-search/ The official blog of Fold3 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:44:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joan Tait nee Hercus http://blog.fold3.com/adding-more-horsepower-to-footnote-search/comment-page-1/#comment-51860 Joan Tait nee Hercus Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:23:59 +0000 http://blog.footnote.com/adding-more-horsepower-to-footnote-search/#comment-51860 trying to trace descendents of Gillies Hercus who lived in St Louis Missouri at least from 1894-1917 trying to trace descendents of Gillies Hercus who lived in St Louis Missouri at least from 1894-1917

]]> By: Peter http://blog.fold3.com/adding-more-horsepower-to-footnote-search/comment-page-1/#comment-48269 Peter Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:38:29 +0000 http://blog.footnote.com/adding-more-horsepower-to-footnote-search/#comment-48269 In the case of hand written documents, the search engine will only pick up information that has been typed in somehow--this would include annotations on the image that are added by Footnote or by members and names, places, dates that have been keyed from the image, but don't show up as annotations. Most typed documents on the site have been run through an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process which does a pretty good job as long as the image is clean, but often makes mistakes and doesn't know if a word is a name, place, etc. On batch download, we're still thinking about possible solutions for this. With the size of the images on the site, batch downloading can quickly become a real bandwidth hog. It sure would be a nice convenience, so hopefully we can come up with a good solution. In the case of hand written documents, the search engine will only pick up information that has been typed in somehow–this would include annotations on the image that are added by Footnote or by members and names, places, dates that have been keyed from the image, but don’t show up as annotations.

Most typed documents on the site have been run through an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process which does a pretty good job as long as the image is clean, but often makes mistakes and doesn’t know if a word is a name, place, etc.

On batch download, we’re still thinking about possible solutions for this. With the size of the images on the site, batch downloading can quickly become a real bandwidth hog. It sure would be a nice convenience, so hopefully we can come up with a good solution.

]]> By: segolily http://blog.fold3.com/adding-more-horsepower-to-footnote-search/comment-page-1/#comment-48069 segolily Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:38:28 +0000 http://blog.footnote.com/adding-more-horsepower-to-footnote-search/#comment-48069 I've noticed that the search engine only picks up 50% of the info in a document. It doesn't even pick up all the personal names and basically no place names unless an individual user has annotated the place. Is there a way to search every word in the documents? Also, is there a way to download a file as a batch? For instance some of the Rev War Pension files have 20-30 pages. Instead of having to download each page individually, can you select the whole file and download it all at once? Thanks for your time and help? I’ve noticed that the search engine only picks up 50% of the info in a document. It doesn’t even pick up all the personal names and basically no place names unless an individual user has annotated the place. Is there a way to search every word in the documents? Also, is there a way to download a file as a batch? For instance some of the Rev War Pension files have 20-30 pages. Instead of having to download each page individually, can you select the whole file and download it all at once?
Thanks for your time and help?

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