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<div><font style="font-size: 14pt;" face="Script MT Bold" size="4"><b style="">Hello museum friends!</b></font></div><div><br /></div><div>Hope you are doing fantastic, and that you survived the summer busyness ☀️</div><div><br /></div><div>We are working with the Tetrahedron Outdoor Club on the digitization of a large collection of mountain cabin guestbooks from Tetrahedron Park. These guest books contain handwritten messages from people who have stayed at each cabin, touching on weather conditions, funny anecdotes, and messages to future cabin guests.</div><div><br /></div><div>Has anyone worked with handwritten text recognition (HTR) scanning software in the digitization of archival documents? In an ideal world, we would love to digitize these guestbooks and allow users to search for familiar names in the scanned documents, but HTR technology is new to us.</div><div><br /></div><div>Anyone have any tips or recommendations on software/hardware to explore?</div><div><br /></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br /></div><div id="signature_old" style="clear:both"><div><font color="#86322e" face="Arial" size="2"><b style=""><font style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></font></b></font></div><div><font color="#86322e" face="Arial" size="2"><font style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>Matthew Lovegrove </b>(he/him)<b> </b></font><b>| </b><font style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt;">Curator/Manager </font></font></div><div><b style=""><font style="font-size: 10pt;" face="Arial" size="2">Sunshine Coast Museum & Archives</font></b></div><div><font style="font-size: 10pt;" face="Arial" size="2"><b style="">716 Winn Road PO Box 766, </b><b style="">Gibsons, BC V0N 1V0</b></font></div><div style=""><font face="Arial" size="2" style="font-size: 10pt;">Tel: 604-886-8232 | Web: <a href="http://www.sunshinecoastmuseum.ca" style="">sunshinecoastmuseum.ca</a> </font></div><div style=""> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sunshinecoastmuseum/" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><img src="cid:em29b3fa7b-eb8b-44f4-853f-75032ff28638@1997a000.com" border="0" width="21" height="21" style="font-size: 12pt;" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/SCM_A" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><img src="cid:em3a81b55e-d3e2-431b-9872-3b3bc9633a6d@1997a000.com" border="0" style="font-size: 12pt;" width="18" height="19" /></a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SunshineCoastMuseum"><img src="cid:eme3f2f92f-27a1-4278-bc6b-17d6430c9ba3@1997a000.com" border="0" style="font-size: 12pt;" width="20" height="20" /></a></div><div style=""><div id="xecd269a602a84462b8ad95468f67572b"></div></div><div style=""><font style="font-weight: 700; font-size: 13.3333px; margin: 0px;"><i><font color="#78c0d4">Support your local Museum, become a</font></i> </font><i><a href="https://www.sunshinecoastmuseum.ca/membership.html" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-size: 13.3333px; margin: 0px;"><font color="#ff00ff">Member!</font></a></i></div><div style=""><i><br /></i></div><div style=""></div><font style="font-style: italic; font-size: 10pt;" size="2">We are situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation)</font><div><i><font size="2" style="font-size: 10pt;">Much of our work takes place in the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the shíshálh (Sechelt Nation)</font></i></div></div><div><br /></div>
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