Calling it a day...
Jan. 16th, 2008 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI just finished some more of the OCR Nightmare, two cadastral map sets on 14 pages of the OCR Nightmare, which is a merry mixture of good and not so good news.
On the plus side, there are 14 fewer pages to translate (i.e., there are 70 left in the job). Plus there's the fact that 1400 words or so can be invoiced.
On the negative side, none of these translated words are derived from any of the original source words, because the corresponding pages never made it through the OCR process, so in a way, it's as if I've made no progress at all against the volume of what's left to translate. Also, it took me about two hours to format and tap out the first map set (around 700 words), which is awfully slow going. Fortunately, it took a lot less time to modify the first set into the second set, so that represented progress.
At the end of the day - right about now, in fact - it's been a pretty good (if cold) one, even if I haven't made much progress, and can't seem to talk about anything other than work. Life goes on.
Cheers...
On the plus side, there are 14 fewer pages to translate (i.e., there are 70 left in the job). Plus there's the fact that 1400 words or so can be invoiced.
On the negative side, none of these translated words are derived from any of the original source words, because the corresponding pages never made it through the OCR process, so in a way, it's as if I've made no progress at all against the volume of what's left to translate. Also, it took me about two hours to format and tap out the first map set (around 700 words), which is awfully slow going. Fortunately, it took a lot less time to modify the first set into the second set, so that represented progress.
At the end of the day - right about now, in fact - it's been a pretty good (if cold) one, even if I haven't made much progress, and can't seem to talk about anything other than work. Life goes on.
Cheers...
