Wikisource:Scan Lab/Archives/2023-10

Entire djvu text off by one page

 * This section was archived on a request by: --Xover (talk) 06:42, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

I just uploaded Signs and Wonders God Wrought in the Ministry for Forty Years by Maria Woodworth-Etter, with the index page at Index:Signswondersgodw0000wood.djvu. Each page in the djvu has the OCR text for the following page. What is the best way to fix this? Heyzeuss (talk) 21:13, 15 September 2023 (UTC)


 * EDIT: It looks like the whole djvu file could use a better OCR, assuming that technology has improved since the book was first scanned and had OCR applied to it. It tested the various OCR tools available for single pages, and Google OCR seemed to be the best, and definitely better than the text in the file at Internet Archive. Heyzeuss (talk) 11:52, 16 September 2023 (UTC)


 * EDIT 2: See sample page Page:Signswondersgodw0000wood.djvu/33. Heyzeuss (talk) 14:44, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
 * @Heyzeuss: Should be fixed now. Xover (talk) 14:12, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

Index:A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains (IA inrockyladyslife00birdrich).pdf

 * This section was archived on a request by: --Xover (talk) 21:48, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Book illustration page 120 missing and also blank following page.

Source Book available at: https://www.google.ca/books/edition/A_Lady_s_Life_in_the_Rocky_Mountains/l9Of83SuJYYC?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=A+Lady%27s+Life+in+the+Rocky+Mountains&printsec=frontcover

Stamlou (talk) 20:02, 28 September 2023 (UTC)


 * @Stamlou: ✅. Now at Index:A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879).djvu for technical reasons. Xover (talk) 14:04, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Great job! Thank you. Stamlou (talk) 16:46, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Index:Plato (IA platocollins00colliala).pdf

 * This section was archived on a request by: --Xover (talk) 06:17, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

There seems to be a problem with page 154: Page:Plato (IA platocollins00colliala).pdf/166 which is near completion on the Monthly Challenge. A clean copy of the page can be found in this scan, but note that this scan contains two separate works, so the first page 154 (Plato) is the correct one.. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:31, 6 July 2023 (UTC)


 * @EncycloPetey: PDF files can't be repaired in place, so I'd have to make a new DjVu and migrate everything over. Are you sure we want to do that for a text that's already fully validated (even if we had to cheat on the broken page)? Xover (talk) 06:36, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
 * @EncycloPetey@Xover What is it that needs repairing? If I download the PDF from Commons and go to page 154 (the one that is not displaying properly in Wikisource) it displays properly in various PDF readers/editors and browsers. That being the case, isn't the problem somewhere else, since the file does not contain a page that looks anything like the one currently showing at Page:Plato (IA platocollins00colliala).pdf/166? Chrisguise (talk) 09:58, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
 * T343145 filed. Probably a problem with MediaWiki not thumbnailing this PDF properly. MER-C 16:54, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
 * @Chrisguise: Right. It's probably a bug in MediaWiki-PDF (I've seen this happen from time to time). But it still prevents proper proofreading/validation even if it's the thumbnail and not the PDF. My inclination would be to just live with it, but I have no dog in this race. Xover (talk) 18:34, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

Index:Narrative of a four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, a peep at Polynesian life (IA b22022430).pdf

 * This section was archived on a request by: --Xover (talk) 09:45, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

Pages 234 and 235 of this otherwise proofread transcription are missing. MER-C 17:27, 5 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Pages are available at . MarkLSteadman (talk) 06:58, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I have uploaded a fixed PDF. If someone could handle the move and renumbering that would be great! Starting with Page:Narrative of a four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, a peep at Polynesian life (IA b22022430).pdf/256 shift +2. MarkLSteadman (talk) 19:01, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
 * And I have moved everything around so that we have all the pages in the scan and the proofread pages match the scans with the correct page numbers. There is still the duplicated pages 242 and 243 (264 to 267 of the scan) as I have left that intact. MarkLSteadman (talk) 00:34, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
 * @MER-C, @MarkLSteadman: Is there anything left to do here? If the work is otherwise finished, just mark the duplicate pages as "Without text", exclude them from transclusion, and move on. Xover (talk) 06:13, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
 * @MER-C, @MarkLSteadman: Is there anything left to do here? Xover (talk) 08:28, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
 * No. MER-C 09:17, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

Index:Brinkley - China - Volume 1.djvu

 * This section was archived on a request by: --Xover (talk) 08:26, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

for inclusion in September's Monthly Challenge - the plate facing page 256 is missing. MER-C 11:11, 19 August 2023 (UTC)


 * @MER-C: ✅. The plate is present in the copy and was scanned, but they messed up in post-processing. I regenerated it with the plate manually included. Xover (talk) 06:09, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Index:The history of medieval Europe.djvu

 * This section was archived on a request by: --Xover (talk) 08:26, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

Book pages xvi-xvii are missing, that is... Page:The history of medieval Europe.djvu/25 is source page xv; Page:The history of medieval Europe.djvu/26 is source page xviii


 * @Snafu22q: ✅. Xover (talk) 06:41, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Index:Gissing - The Odd Women, vol. 2, 1893.pdf

 * This section was archived on a request by: --Xover (talk) 08:25, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

Page 94 appears corrupt (also on Commons). The page looks fine on the Internet Archive source. Arcorann (talk) 11:52, 29 September 2023 (UTC)


 * @Arcorann: This is a known bug in MediaWiki's PDF handler. I've made a new set of all three volumes as DjVu and migrated the extant pages over. See vol. 1 · vol. 2 · vol. 3. Page 94 looks fine now. Xover (talk) 21:48, 9 October 2023 (UTC)