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Re: Problem with derivation and rendering of files.

So it is up to you, to NOT confuse the IA AI and stop rotating things between scans. It tried its best to work out what was going thru your mind, when you rotated that label. Artificial Intelligence ...

Posted by: Time Traveller

Re: any proofreading of the texts you include in your collections?

While software is great with OCR, other people use great software to create new type fonts. Its a continuing war of catch up by OCR software writers to people wanting to be unique and creative with ne...

Posted by: Time Traveller

Re: any proofreading of the texts you include in your collections?

Stephen, I forgot to mention them. I have over 50 books passing through distributed proofreaders at this time. Readers should go to that site and concentrate as much free time as is possible proofrea...

Posted by: garthus

Re: any proofreading of the texts you include in your collections?

See also "Distributed Proofreaders" http://www.pgdp.net/c/ They are always looking for volunteers to help. Also this announcement from IA: http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=266894...

Posted by: stbalbach

Re: any proofreading of the texts you include in your collections?

Albretch, This is only OCR'd text. Some books have been through Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page They have good full-text files. Eventually all of this will be coordinated...

Posted by: garthus

Re: Problem with derivation and rendering of files.

Peter, Yes it only happens on files where I rotated one of the images. They will have to fix this. It also occurs in the JP2 archive which is derived from the PDF. Gerry

Posted by: garthus

any proofreading of the texts you include in your collections?

Hi ~ by browsing your collection of texts I noticed that many texts haven't been proofread at all and that this is not indicated as part of the text's info ~ you offer pdf files, but their actual...

Posted by: Albretch

Re: Need help searching

FWIW - Google might report 8000, but you can only access a few hundred. Try to actually scroll through all 8000 hits and it will run aground. This is a known "feature" not only of Google Books but Goo...

Posted by: stbalbach

Re: Problem with derivation and rendering of files.

Gerry, The large size PDF is okay, I suggest you remove that large on, then you replace the small size PDF and try to re derive from that to me nothing appears to be mangled, except your first sca...

Posted by: Time Traveller

THLDTbase up to 44,000 downloads

Does the Archive have unlimited bandwidth; if not stuff like this will soon ruin acess for everyone. Gerry

Posted by: garthus

Problem with derivation and rendering of files.

This link and another I just uploaded have mangled read-online and jpg2000 files, note how the first page displays while the PDF file is fine. Something wrong with the rendering during the file deriva...

Posted by: garthus

Look at the unknown files===exe

http://www.archive.org/details/www.forsanelhaq.com_108 Look at the unknown files Should not the IA block exe files, or at least check them first? As far as I can see, you are not downloading an ac...

Posted by: Time Traveller

Re: Need help searching

You can also do the same with Google Books. http://books.google.com/books?q=Civil+War++Personal&btnG=Search+Books&lr=&as_brr=1 This will give you over 8,000 links, although some of them wi...

Posted by: martyveldman

Re: Need help searching

Try this link and it's related searches. http://www.archive.org/details/civilwarmemories00stim Once you find the link, click on the 'Subject' and it will take you to 689 other books. Marty

Posted by: martyveldman

Re: Question about the Scanning Service

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Posted by: johnvarenda

Re: Need help searching

Do a search for T. A. Dodge. That will start you in the right direction. You can also search using the Unit Titles (7th Cavalry) etc because most personal narratives here include that in the title. ...

Posted by: BoloResartus

Re: Need help searching

I apologise, I thought you were asking about the current war, that the US War Department wishes it never got caught up in. Peter

Posted by: Time Traveller

Re: Need help searching

Steven, Do you have any soldiers names in mind or just general stuff? Gerry

Posted by: garthus

Re: Need help searching

I believe such stuff embarrassed to USA Defence Department, thus its armed forces are now only allowed to upload to a official Govt web site. sorry I dont have the link to that, my info came from a n...

Posted by: Time Traveller

Need help searching

I'm interested in obtaining personal narrative by soldiers in the U.S. Civil War. Can't quite figure out how to search for such texts. Can someone help? Thanks ...

Posted by: steven1950

UE members want joint project digitization of books

PARIS (Reuters) - European Union members want to create a joint project on the digitization of books, French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand said, challenging Google's plan to create a massive di...

Posted by: Time Traveller

Re: IE8.css

I dug out this email address as the uploader responsible, however, not sure if it is a hijacked email address. seba.lay@gmail.com And came up with this http://www.facebook.com/pages/Seba-Lay/202819...

Posted by: Time Traveller

Re: IE8.css

By the time the IA normally reacts to such issues, an lot of damage will have been done to Brewer and Co's reputations. Peter

Posted by: Time Traveller

IE8.css

This crap was just put up. The poster does not explain what it is in the description. I am sure a relatively unskilled hacker could find where this is comming from and stop it. Our top four downloaded...

Posted by: garthus

IE8.css

check this link: http://www.archive.org/details/IE8.css This stuff is not hard to find and should be blocked opr deleted. Gerry

Posted by: garthus

THldtbase

This link is right on the Open Source home page; these are the base files for the web site being used through the Archive. Tell me no one at the Archive can see this. http://www.archive.org/details/...

Posted by: garthus

Copyrighted material

The link: http://ia341332.us.archive.org/0/items/THldtbase/dtree.js and several others under your most used links are not only copyrighted items; but some hacker is using the archive to post this cr...

Posted by: garthus

Re: how to index archive.org text?

thanks for your reply. since our users are free to use the search engine, free to directly link to IA after the search, and we do not serve any banner or adsense ads on the search result page, I guess...

Posted by: swiftlet

Re: Share button broken for linux

check out http://www.archive.org/details/ReasonForArchiveToNotUseFlash Gerry is in hospital currently, he switched to browser Chrome and got better results. He might have tried Opera too. I am still...

Posted by: Time Traveller

Re: Share button broken for linux

I don't like the new beta uploader. The old uploader is used very cool in website. i try use this new uploader several times but failed , i don't know why. the new uploader is at this page http://www...

Posted by: johngreen

Re: XML searches haved stopped working

Will send a note to Gerry for his info. he is quiet currently, as he just had a op, last heard from him when he shut down his laptop, as he was being prepared for the op. Peter

Posted by: Time Traveller

Re: how to index archive.org text?

commonly the difference is seen in the fees charged. if a fee for services rendered, or goods supplied just covers costs, example, the cost of a blank DVD, the time and resources in burning data to ...

Posted by: Time Traveller

Re: XML searches haved stopped working

OK. XML searches are working again. They don't complete, but at least they start. Thanks.

Posted by: bookdev

Re: how to index archive.org text?

does it matter? what's the definition of "commercial site"?

Posted by: swiftlet

Re: how to index archive.org text?

Is AddALL a commercial site?

Posted by: Bede

XML searches haved stopped working

Advanced XML Search (http://www.archive.org/advancedsearch.php) now gives the following error on all searches: XML Parsing Error: no element found

Posted by: bookdev

Re: hacker usage of the archive?

already downloaded one Gerry, seems I know they are there, before you finish uploading. Peter, ps, got the car one too

Posted by: Time Traveller

Re: hacker usage of the archive?

Peter, Not to great for bandwidth is it. Check out these two I just put up. http://www.archive.org/details/Super_Kem_Tone_Delux_Interior_Paint_SKT_2B_9_51_57_ http://www.archive.org/details/Super_...

Posted by: garthus

Re: hacker usage of the archive?

downloaded 19000 times. you mean its linked to from somewhere? its been there under a month, as per mldm.jsthe666hacker@gmail.com2009-10-28 12:55:05

Posted by: Time Traveller

Linked script not loaded

Share button will not work in Opera 10.1: Linked script not loaded message generated. Gerry

Posted by: garthus

Linked script not loaded

Share button will not work in Opera 10.1: Linked script not loaded message generated. Gerry

Posted by: garthus

hacker usage of the archive?

Check this link, looks suspicious to me, I think someone is using the archive to host maleware. http://www.archive.org/details/mldm.js Gerry

Posted by: garthus

Re: Need help adding a text to Internet Archive

Matt, Still waiting for it to finish deriving, must not like that Gothic Script; looks like three downloads already for part 1. Gerry

Posted by: garthus

Re: Need help adding a text to Internet Archive

Just for the record. The keyword for the second volume is still German. No big deal. Just thought I would let you know. Regards, Matt

Posted by: mattwj2005

Re: Need help adding a text to Internet Archive

Matt, Will fix both. Gerry

Posted by: garthus

Re: Need help adding a text to Internet Archive

Gerry, Thank you so much! I appreciate all your efforts. Just to let you know you, volume 1 should be Swedish not German. I just want this corrected in case anyone else wants to download this volum...

Posted by: mattwj2005

Re: Need help adding a text to Internet Archive

Matt; Part 2 link: http://www.archive.org/details/Bibelen__Eller_Den_Heliga_Skrift_Part_2_ Incidentlt the JP2 file size was 1.2 gb so you probably were right about the 2gb file size. Gerry

Posted by: garthus

Re: Need help adding a text to Internet Archive

Matt, Took all night but it looks good. I will put up part 2 now. Gerry

Posted by: garthus

Re: Need help adding a text to Internet Archive

Matt, I got it to derive by splitting the book into two columes; whenn I am done i will post the links. Part 1 is already up to a flipbook and should be done shortly: http://www.archive.org/details/...

Posted by: garthus

Re: Need help adding a text to Internet Archive

I appreciate your help. Thanks again! I hope we can get this resolved soon! Matt

Posted by: mattwj2005