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PDF to share - Location USN ships, air units- 1942 - 2/27/2017 11:40:12 AM

TulliusDetritus

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No big deal but maybe someone is interested.

The USN site posted declassified files. The Location of USN ships, air units [including USMC] that is.

Problem is, the whole thing is divided into many single PDFs (which I downloaded, obviously). Each month produced like 3 or 4 situation documents (I guess that's what the real Big Bosses were regularly getting).

I simply merged the PDFs. I've got the year 1942 finished. 111 pages, 9 megas.

Anyone interested, feel free to download it.

EDITED: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6rLR7qECq6gWnh2ZW83MEZXeEU/view

Needless to say, no spam, no virus, no trolling.

I'll keep merging the 1943, 1944 and 1945 years and post the links here.

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RE: PDF to share - Location USN ships, air units- 1942 - 2/27/2017 11:43:12 AM

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Thanks. I may find this very useful.

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RE: PDF to share - Location USN ships, air units- 1942 - 2/27/2017 1:53:11 PM

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Includes the aviation capable ships only but certainly the May 6th 1942 document should be of interest to the several persons who are attempting to design/develop a May 1942 Scenario.

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RE: PDF to share - Location USN ships, air units- 1942 - 2/27/2017 5:13:49 PM

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Nice find! Thanks!

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RE: PDF to share - Location USN ships, air units- 1942 - 2/28/2017 12:24:51 AM

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We used those documents when developing AE. Many times the specifics were out of date. You can see ships listed which were sunk at the time of the report. It does give you a good idea of the size and composition of units at various points in time.

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RE: PDF to share - Location USN ships, air units- 1942 - 2/28/2017 9:52:59 AM

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Many times the specifics were out of date. You can see ships listed which were sunk at the time of the report.

Bill

And people complain when (in game) combat reports their own side are wrong.....

Evidence of FOW working as designed.

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RE: PDF to share - Location USN ships, air units- 1942 - 2/28/2017 10:48:34 AM

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Ok, I just learned how to create an index

The PDF should be easier to handle. I mean this:

I reuploaded the 1942 file then (first post).

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RE: PDF to share - Location USN ships, air units- 1942 - 2/28/2017 1:04:49 PM

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I tried running those files through a few different OCR programs, but there is too much garbage and the results were unreadable. Having them in a searchable format would be great though. Unfortunately I can't think of any way of really doing it right without someone laboriously retyping them into something like Word.

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RE: PDF to share - Location USN ships, air units- 1942 - 2/28/2017 2:27:41 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: wdolson

I tried running those files through a few different OCR programs, but there is too much garbage and the results were unreadable. Having them in a searchable format would be great though. Unfortunately I can't think of any way of really doing it right without someone laboriously retyping them into something like Word.

Bill

You mean the file I uploaded? The quality is of course the original (did they simply scan the documents?) but I can read it almost perfectly (some documents are more deteriorated than others of course).

I'm using a very light non-intrusive free reader: Sumatra PDF: https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/download-free-pdf-viewer.html

I'm trying some experiments but I don't think it's going to work. Via Calibre (an ebook manager, converter) I'm converting the file to different formats and see what happens. If it works, the search function might work. I mean, you type let's say "VS1-D14" and it gets you to this unit.

But I suspect it's not going to work.

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RE: PDF to share - Location USN ships, air units- 1942 - 2/28/2017 3:05:45 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: TulliusDetritus

Ok, I just learned how to create an index The PDF should be easier to handle. I mean this:

I reuploaded the 1942 file then (first post).

The machine-legibility problem is clear here. The two punched holes at the top of the document and the SECRET/DECLASSIFIED stamps overlapping would throw most reader programs. There is also scratched out text at the top left.

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RE: PDF to share - Location USN ships, air units- 1942 - 3/1/2017 3:13:41 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: TulliusDetritus
You mean the file I uploaded? The quality is of course the original (did they simply scan the documents?) but I can read it almost perfectly (some documents are more deteriorated than others of course).

I'm using a very light non-intrusive free reader: Sumatra PDF: https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/download-free-pdf-viewer.html

I'm trying some experiments but I don't think it's going to work. Via Calibre (an ebook manager, converter) I'm converting the file to different formats and see what happens. If it works, the search function might work. I mean, you type let's say "VS1-D14" and it gets you to this unit.

But I suspect it's not going to work.

The Navy released these documents in PDF over 10 years ago, I've had them close to that long. I experimented with OCR 5 or 6 years ago. PDFs can be text or an image, text versions can be searched, but images can't. These are images and can't be searched. As BBfanboy pointed out the hole punches and stamps confuse the OCR, so do shadows of dirt or other schmutz on the original and such.

A really good OCR program might be able to extract pieces to something like a Word document, but it's going to take a human being going in afterwards and cleaning up all the artifacts. An ebook program is the wrong thing to use. You need something like Textbridge or another commercial OCR program.

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