Something New of Something Old

[Mechanic]

The Australian Government has started OCR scanning old newspapers. Obviously the results are not the best, so readers are invited to correct the OCR output. A copy of the original story is provided as a reference. I found one story from the Brisbane Courier dated April 11, 1894. The story is about the wonderful machine the Linotype. I took the trouble to correct the story, as best I could. As an old Linotype mechanic I thought the story was worth the trouble. It includes a photo of the machine.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3577691

[rag451]

Isn't that something else? The Dallas Morning News has done similar work scanning their papers, but to "see" them, one must pay a hefty subscription fee.

Thanks for sharing!

Robert