medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 08:07:00 -0800, Christopher Crockett
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> after you wait around for the 90+ Mb file to load, try doing a search in
> one
> of those Chevalier files, John; and give yourself time to drink the cup
> of
> coffee, not just poping over to the corner Starbucks to buy it.
Well ... it took about 45 minutes to download the first volume. The file
took less than 5 seconds to open - although admittedly Adobe Reader was
already running - and it took me about 15 seconds to pinpoint Fulbert's
article. Using AR's "Find" feature on Fulbert, the first hit took about a
minute and a quarter; it's s.v. Aubert of Cambrai. To judge by the rate
indicated by the search progress window, the whole 1100 pages would have
taken about 10 minutes.
I'm curious to know how accurate the OCR is for these Stanford files. When
I've tried similar tests with Amazon's "search within the book" function
their OCR is clearly missing words; subjects which appear on pages listed
in the book's index don't always turn up in the search results.
Hyphenation is one obvious explanation, but I'm not convinced that's the
entire reason they're not all showing up.
The closest Starbucks is about 2 miles away, by the way, and the only time
I've had a Starbucks drink I used a coupon for a free one.
John
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