The latest on real estate recordings and new technology from the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds in Lowell
Image Indexing
(this is the project used to create images of the old Grantor books from microfilm)
This project is currently very high on our priority list…here’s a close-up of how we do it…
Step 1: Flipping through the entire index, an alphabetical listing of the names contained within each page is created.
Step 2: The images are stored on our computer server in folders…by letter. Once the “name listing” is complete, an employee is assigned a letter to work on.
Step 3: These images were taken from 35mm film and contain two pages per frame. They must be split and saved as individual electronic images. This is done by “cropping” the image in Paint Shop Pro.
Step 4: Once the image has been divided it usually has to be “cleaned up”. Meaningless stray dots are removed using a feature called “despeckling”.
Step 5: When a letter is completed it must be verified. This is done by comparing the number of “names listed” with the number of “images”…if all are present there will be twice as many images as names (since the images were split).
Step 6 (maybe): If there is a inaccurate number of names to images, the MIS director checks each entry until the problem is discovered and corrected… Zoom out.
Sales of Personal Computers rose more than 17 percent for the third quarter of 2005. Many people are changing to laptops and low priced models. Sounds like the latest trend in the automotive industry…”small and cheap”.
This week Nintendo will unveil its plan for free Wireless Internet (WiFi) access at McDonalds for its handheld games…I wonder if Nintendo can do something about McDonald’s Apple Pies? They’re much too hot.
And speaking of Apple…
Apple Computer has released a Video iPod… Wait a minute…What’s Steve Jobs up to?…I don’t even have the audio one yet.
Did you know that the small Audio iPod is called a “Shuffle”? Well…actually it’s small in memory, but not the smallest…the smallest…I mean thinner audio iPod is called the”Nano”…it has more memory than the “Shuffle”, but less that the bigger “original”…but… physically it’s smaller…boy technology can be complicated.
Splog is the new word that is being used to describle spamming a blog…”Can you use Splog in a sentence please?”… Yes…”By the way… the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds now has a security process that will prevent our blog from receiving Splog”… How’s that?
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