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ASSOCIATION OF AVERAGE ADJUSTERS
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 10TH MAY, 1984
ADDRESS BY THE CHAIRMAN -
MR. R. A. STACEY

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) recovery.
Copyright Julian H. Stacey July 2017

This is http://www.berklix.com/jhs/average_adjuster/

Recovered Document Here

Recovery Notes:

  • Scanning: The document below was scanned to .tiff by berklix . com / scanjet / 4 times, in monochrome, with density 0, +30, +60, & +90 darker.
    Actual scans not on line to save space.
  • OCR Optimisation: +90 darker was generally but not everywhere better than +60%, as some page darker print at the top of the paper pages etc (it's not an artifact of the scanner) (more noticeable on Page A=2 & less noticeable on P23. Maybe typist tired by bottom of some pages ?)
  • OCR (Optical Character Recognition) by Tesseract:,
  • Comparison of texts by eye with mgdiff:, a colourising differential comparator.
    BSDforge . com / projects / textproc / mgdiff /
    svnweb . freebsd . org / ports / head / textproc / mgdiff / pkg - descr ? revision = HEAD
  • Then I manually corrected OCR errors back to original plain text.
  • To keep in plain Ascii text, which has no Pound Sterling, symbols were replaced by international currency trading abbreviation GBP
    (if document is later converted to html, I will use html symbol £ (£).
  • Underlined Words manualy converted to _Underlined_ _Words_
    (if document is later converted to html, if underline is not supported, I will use Bold
  • Page numbers: manually restored inside grey editors brackets [ ].
  • Paragraph indents: Original used 10 space indents, but no blank line. Either one of both {short preceeding lines} and {10 space indents} was sufficient for the OCR to detect paragraphs & insert a blank line. The OCR also stripped the 10 blank spaces. I restored the 10 spaces for authenticity, but left the blank lines in place as it makes it easier to read. (Original presumably avoided blank lines to avoid paper documents with more pages, but no issue here.)
  • OCR inserted some spurious blank lines elsewhere, these manually removed.
  • Spelling: I did not notice spelling errors, beyond what few OCR created, but if I had I would have left in place as original.
  • HTML Format Later maybe. to allow browsers on small windows with narrow lines eg mobile & PDA screens.
    Before that I will add switches to berklix2.mk macros of form:
    .if !exist .no_ispell to inhibit spell checker fixing &
    .if !exist .no_tidy_m_reformat to inhibit reformatting, until I have indent sections & tables marked up in HTML.
  • I worked from the author (my father) R. A. Stacey's paper copy.
    After recovery was complete, I discovered www . average - adjusters . com
    but www . average - adjusters . com / documents / category / wise - words - from - the - chair/ is blocked with "You need to login first to view Documents").
  • Copyright Julian H. Stacey, Munich, 2017, copyright asserted to avoid it being abused eg by subsuming into private domain. I do not contribute to closed source, only to Open Source
    Even the UK government publish after 30 years. Ron Stacey's 1984 speach, by publication in 2017 was over 30 years old & is public.

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