What do you do when half the image is unreadable but the other half is readable?
Hello, I am indexing US Directories. Many of the batches that I have received are two pages, with one page being too faint to read, while the other is clear enough to read. I'd love to index the page I can read, but I don't know what to do about the illegible page, so I end up returning the batch.
Should I just ignore the unreadable page or try to count up how many unreadable records there might be and fill in all the entries as < UNREADABLE >? Or what else should I do?
Thank you for your help!
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Return the batch. Someone else will pick it up.
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Thank you for your speedy reply!
I have returned plenty of batches like this; I haven't attempted to finish one since I'm not sure what to do. When someone else does pick up the batch I returned, what would they do? That's what I want to know so I can better help.
Any other answers would be greatly appreciated. Thank you again!
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We simply don't know what the other person will do. Maybe they have experience with these types of records. Maybe they send it back and the batch ends up at the project admin's door and they take it from there. That stuff is above my pay grade, so I wouldn't worry about it too much.
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@Marissah Whitney Bentke Before returning a batch like the one in your screenshot, you might try playing with contrast and brightness, - click on the 3rd one down to see if inverting & adjusting brightness and contrast will help
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I've run into these difficult batches as well. Definitely hard on the eyes to decipher. I started the batch, but was unable to complete. Hopefully someone else has better luck and experience than I do.
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I do what I can with these. So for the example in the screenshot above, I'd probably do the whole last column (or two, if I'm feeling determined with the contrast/brightness settings that day), leave a few blank rows at the top of the index table to indicate there's more supposed to be up there, then return the batch. Then I send wishes of good luck into the ether for the next person! :)
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