I kept up with the transcribing this week. The documents are coming along, but the cloud drop isn’t proving to be as helpful as we had hoped. One problem with it is that it won’t accept PDF files, only Jpegs. So that means I have to take every PDF and convert it into a Jpeg using Photoshop. While this is an easy enough conversion, it’s still really time consuming and not all that efficient.
Photoshop can only convert one page of a document at a time, and you have to do some extra steps to keep all the pages together. I managed to get all the pages together by creating a custom panorama, where you can stitch together panels in any order you like. However, I encountered another snag because the cloud drop can only handle about 25KB images, and panoramas are about five times that.
So now I’m back to transcribing one page at a time. For a seventeen page document, this gets tedious very fast. The computer still doesn’t do that great of a job at transcribing, and if the image is bigger than 25 KB it will only transcribe about half the page. So I’m still spending copious amounts of time editing and transcribing myself.
I had high hopes for the cloud drop, and for the smaller documents it did do pretty well. But I think I’ll stick with transcribing things myself, just so I can save some time.
