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Eh Alan!,a appreciate aal ya efforts here,noo gaan off the faded files wat didnt recognise,a think that's wat wud be the case wi me book one,done wi the fineline pen.A used that pen,thinking it wud mek a neater job,with the intention of only finishing the whole project for me Wife and Two Sons reading only. Aav had that much interest from a lot of me extended family,some of who are ex-coalminers also,and a lot of me Marras from the pits aav worked at,plus ye kind folks on wor forum,that a started ti think seriously aboot Publishing it,till a read that the Publishers usually want a few chapters in a Word Document format,or summick like that,ti see if it grabs their attention...then that put me off the idea! A think first of aal the original needs preserving before it's too late! Wadn't ye think they wud develop a foolproof OCR Program,seein as we can send men and women inti space!! 2-0 am Alan,as usual,fading hard,aal let ye knaa hoo a scanned copy looks after aav done a few pages. Cheers Buddy,Bill.Nite Nite. PS..Lilbill,thanks also for your kind suggestions,it's much appreciated!

ps. forgot to say the last file input to the OCR was a selection from your comments from the Bates album - all converted - nee bovver👌

@HIGH PIT WILMA - I was curious to see how the OCR software that is available for everyone these days worked so I Googled it and went for the free download of the Windows FreeOCR software. I wondered if there would be an interaction with the user if the software couldn't recognise the text input on Pdf/Jpeg etc files. I download a mix of files = hand written & typed to input to the OCR software. The handwritten one I downloaded a one with fade writing and created an enhanced copy and they both copies were input. Unfortunately the original faded written copy failed to have any characters recognised and the enhanced copy only had four characters recognised. In fact it was only the standard typed copy that was totally transformed from a photo to a text document. You will have to hire an out of work typist, that knows pit taak, and has quite a few days free time 🙂 The original input on the left and the OCR output on the right. This one is Foundation text and quite a few letters failed to be recognised by the OCR :- This is the enhanced hand written BLACK text - only 4 characters recognised :- This one the input had upper and lowercase print plus numerous symbols but just a few of the uppercase characters were recognised :- This was the enhanced faded script but nothing recognised :- Faded handwritten letter - nowt recognised :-