avillasenorh / OCR-bulletins

OCR, Proofreading and Processing Scanned Seismological Bulletins

OCR-bulletins

OCR, Proofreading and Processing Scanned Seismological Bulletins

1. Contents of this repository

• src: software for processing and proof-reading OCR output from seismic bulletins
• stations: files with list of valid station names used in the ISS bulletins (1918-1963)
• examples: example files to test the processing codes

2. Contents of the src repository

• fmt56: C programs to proofread OCR output from ISS bulletins for the time period 1918-1956
• fmt57: C programs to proofread OCR output from ISS bulletins for the time period 1957-1963
• baas: C programs to reformat BAAS bulletins
• gr: C programs to reformat Gutenberg's notebooks
• isc: C programs to convert output of fmt56 and fmt57 to ISC's FFB format

3. Usage

Proofread and reformat txt files:

$ fmt56 i53_0020.txt $ fmt57 i59_0020.txt