I have a digital copy of a court case from early 19th century Maryland that is 119 pages. There’s no way I’m ever going to get the entire thing transcribed. I just know that is not going to happen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What I have done instead is to create a document where I can take notes on the court case–indicating what page something is on in the original PDF file I have that contains the whole case. I’m extracting names, dates, key elements in the document. Sometimes I extract a paragraph here or there or I type an entire page or two if there’s quite a bit of information or I want to include context. In these cases, I always use quotation marks to indicate what has been taken from the records verbatim instead of being my notes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every name is extracted as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Typing the information helps me to get some of it in my brain and later I will have the ability to search the text by keyword, name, and the like. I would like to transcribe the entire thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But that’s not always realistic and a file of my notes of what’s where in the document is better than nothing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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