Courtesy of user nonnonanni at Scribd.com, I have come across what I consider to be an incredible find: A daily Ambrosian Rite Missal in Latin and Italian from 1954 (as both a keen supporter of the "Restore the '54" movement and a lover of those immemorial rites exempted from standardization in 1570, this is my version of the stars aligning). The only problem is that the PDF is not of terribly high quality and I would dearly like to see if it can be remastered, or else see if the text can be extracted and made up into something more accessible (e.g., downloadable PDFs for the Ordinary of the Mass and for Sundays and feasts of precept).
I really should be trying to figure this out myself, but the only means of remastering the file that I've found so far either cost a pretty penny for files over a certain size or else employ the use of A.I. Unfortunately, I don't have the ready cash to be able to spend on such a project and I'd rather not use anything that involves A.I. if I can help it. In case anyone has any ideas or would like to take a crack at it themselves (as well as for the sake of posterity), I'm providing the PDF here (it's too big to upload as one file, so I've split it up into 100-page segments).
A Blessed Octave of the Epiphany and Christmas Season to you all!
This is great. I'd recommend trying to get these pdfs loaded into archive.org as a first step, as that will increase the audience of people who can begin to look at them.
With or without AI or OCR, the project you describe will take a lot of labor. If you're willing to be more than an idea man, if you have the time and monastic fortitude (google scriptoria and repetitive stress injuries), then I'd suggest that the path of least resistance might be upskilling yourself for what you are specifically hoping to accomplish.
I actually had the whole thing uploaded to the Archive, but it didn't seem to be getting any attention. I'll give it another go and see if I can reach more people.
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