OuNuPo

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Special Issue 5: OuNuPo, Ouvroir de Numérisation Potentielle

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Project Description

Main partner: WORM (WORM's Pirate Bay to be precise)

Special guests: Manetta Berends and Cristina Cochior (Algolit group)


The outcome of the special issue will be the following things:

  • 2 book scanners (one to stay at XPUB, one to stay at WORM)
  • one unique (as in unique copy) reader in the form of an artist's book.

The reader will be a collection of texts curated by students and staff on the topic of book scanner, text mobility, constraint writing, algorithmic literature, and I also hope the culture and politics of OCR, text analysis, AI in the context of text processing and generation.

  • a collection of different software back-ends for the book scanner, so

as to reconfigure its functionality, ie you might scan a book, and get a pdf, the content of which has been manipulated in poetical or critical way, or you could also get something else entirely, a sound file, an collection of images, etc.

  • a gigantic collection of files produced by combining the reader as

input source into the scanner making use of the plethora of different back-ends. IMPORTANT: the reader will never exist as a typical digital alter-ego of the analog original but only through a multitude of different digital interpretations.

  • an evening launch at WORM with presentation of the reader, back-ends,

results, etc.

Sessions

Independent Research

week 2

Look into your assigned topic, try, test, and on a wiki page write a recipe/report/tutorial based on your experiments and research. Andre Castro (talk) 20:01, 15 January 2018 (CET)

week 5

Raw data sonification/visualization research: a recipe, a work (with documentation on how you got to the result), a survey of tools, a workflow, or whatever you feel curious about, concerning that topic.

week 8 (feb 20 2018)

Natasha

First scan, OCR results and take the 50 most common words, and this should then somehow affects what happens in next scan.

  • Where do you store things like a text file,
  • How does it get exported / postprocessed
  • When does OCR occur?
  • What hooks can we use?

Alice

Desire to go back to print, maybe a poster. Select words based on their length (example of OuLiPo, Carl Andre)

  • How to extract patterns from words
  • How to produce new outputs (build a poster)
  • What "leftovers" exist in the processing of the images?
  • Word searches

Zalan

Needs to find a rule to constraining. Reading in a non-linear way

> Borges ... L

OCR Materializing text in 3D ... blender. 360 projection ... spatialize?

Alex

  • Scanned data as chatbot?
  • Database back to narrative ...
  • Integrating with ReportLab/Platypus generated layouts
  • Including code in results

Links/References/Reading List

The Archivist — DIY Book Scanner http://diybookscanner.org/archivist/indexee7f.html

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Archivist Book Scanner (looks more like our parts)


building notes

Scanning software

  • post-processing:
    • scan-tailor: interactive post-processing (GUI) tool for scanned pages:page splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, selecting content.


links

Klijn, Edwin. 2008. ‘The Current State-of-Art in Newspaper Digitization: A Market Perspective’. D-Lib Magazine 14 (1/2). https://doi.org/10.1045/january2008-klijn.

DIY Book Scanner forum: Hardware & building

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