Re: [sword-devel] Volunteer for Data Harvesting Palaeographic Tables

2010-11-10 Thread David Haslam
FIO, Just in case anyone was not familiar with the acronym ITSEE, it denotes http://www.itsee.bham.ac.uk/ Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing . David -- View this message in context: http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/Volunteer-for-Data-Harvesting-Palaeographic-Tables

Re: [sword-devel] Volunteer for Data Harvesting Palaeographic Tables

2010-11-10 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Thanks for all the feedback, personal and private, everyone. I've heard suggestions from Peter and Jerry regarding gimp's tools, and from DJ Ortley about a tool called ImageJ which allow simple macro definitions which would allow one to drag a polygon around a cell and hit a key to execute a macro

Re: [sword-devel] Volunteer for Data Harvesting Palaeographic Tables

2010-11-10 Thread jhphx
Peter von Kaehne wrote: Not immediately volunteering Troy, the pages are very regular and neatly black and white. The main problem is that they are not completely straight. Don't hold me to this but I believe Gimp allows for an arbitrary angle of rotation. Seems like I have something he

Re: [sword-devel] Volunteer for Data Harvesting Palaeographic Tables

2010-11-10 Thread jhphx
On 11/10/2010 9:18 AM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: We have a project here at ITSEE which could really use the data from the out-of-copyrighted work available here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Das_Buch_der_Schrift_%28Faulmann%29_186.jpg Pages 186 - 192 ... You just want those images sp

Re: [sword-devel] Volunteer for Data Harvesting Palaeographic Tables

2010-11-10 Thread Peter von Kaehne
actually lift only the letters. Gimp offers a python interface and is presumably capable of dealing with this. Maybe someone with Gimp and python experience is your best bet Peter > Von: "Troy A. Griffitts" > An: SWORD Developers\' Collaboration Forum > Betreff: [sw

[sword-devel] Volunteer for Data Harvesting Palaeographic Tables

2010-11-10 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
We have a project here at ITSEE which could really use the data from the out-of-copyrighted work available here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Das_Buch_der_Schrift_%28Faulmann%29_186.jpg Pages 186 - 192 What we need is for someone to use the full resolution images and cut the images for