Any decent programmers out there with a little time on their hands? (Re: DC madam phone list)

piedmont

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Thu Jul-12-07 12:00 AM
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Any decent programmers out there with a little time on their hands? (Re: DC madam phone list)

We need an automated program for submitting the DC madam telephone numbers to Google or some such other search engine and saving the results to a text file. I have very limited experience in C, but it seems like a relatively simple bot would be a powerful tool for this purpose. Just read off the numbers in a text file, enter them into Google's search window, and write the results (with the searched number) to another text file. Any takers? Ideas? Is this idea crap?

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Duer 157099

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Thu Jul-12-07 12:14 AM
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1. On that same note, it'd be really helpful if...

someone knew of an easy semi-automated way to convert the .tif files to some format that could be easily imported to excel, for sorting. I tried a few, but the formats are so inconsistent, especially after running through an OCR. But then, I'm not up on all the current tools and toys for doing something like this. I know something must exist.

Each zipped file contains about 100 pages of tiff files (and there are about a dozen of those). Way too many to manually deal with.

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wuushew

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Thu Jul-12-07 12:17 AM
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2. There is an acrobat file of those numbers

Edited on Thu Jul-12-07 12:19 AM by wuushew

can't you do a simple text export?

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Duer 157099

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Thu Jul-12-07 12:33 AM
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6. The one I tried on was a bit too dirty

bad conversion or something.

Plus, the format is so inconsistent, it's really hard to import without having to go over every line and add some delimiters manually.

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piedmont

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Thu Jul-12-07 12:21 AM
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4. Ooh, yeah, forgot that step. Get the numbers into a text file to begin with.

I know there are ways of scanning in letters and numbers but I am not familiar with them.

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Mayberry Machiavelli

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Thu Jul-12-07 12:18 AM
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3. Go through the thread at this link below, lots of folks working on it:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2548034&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

Drop them a line.

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piedmont

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Thu Jul-12-07 12:28 AM
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5. Well, they've figured out how to digitize them, and they're working on putting up a text list:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2548034&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=7

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Duer 157099

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Thu Jul-12-07 12:34 AM
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7. Excellent. Thanks. n/t

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Duer 157099

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Thu Jul-12-07 12:45 AM
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8. Here's a technical question

When I unzip the files, there's one large tiff composed of multiple pages. I use PSP, and it seems to only extract the first 100 pages -- I suspect that some of these files have more than 100 pages, yes?

Any ideas what's happening?

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