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Old 01-25-2016, 08:51 AM   #35991 (permalink)
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Ask soccer fans all over Europe, Central, and South America. Or baseball fans in Japan or Cuba. It's common all over the planet. I grew up in Boston which is one of the biggest sporting hotbeds in the US and has been for generations. Sports were huge when I was a kid. Everyone played and everyone had their idols. It was just the way it was.
I also grew up in Boston and I find sports unbearably dull. Never had any sports idols. Never been able to sit through a sporting event without getting bored.
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Old 01-25-2016, 09:07 AM   #35992 (permalink)
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Old 01-25-2016, 09:24 AM   #35993 (permalink)
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Old 01-25-2016, 10:56 AM   #35994 (permalink)
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My day? Next week we depose 2 dudes from mega-corp. I spent 11.5 hours reviewing the crap load of discovery we received this week to find every instance where either of the dudes was the recipient of, or was CCd on an email with the China fake factory.

1,144 PDF files of scanned emails. All tolled I found 172 instances. Oh, and I had to create an excel spreadsheet listing each one individually with TO, FROM, CC, FILE #, and SUBJECT MATTER.

Did I mention it was 1,144 files?
Too bad you don't know any programming. That would have been a perfect instance to use it. Turn 11.5 hours into about 30 seconds, but of course creating the function would add to the time too, depending on your skill level.
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Old 01-25-2016, 11:19 AM   #35995 (permalink)
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Too bad you don't know any programming. That would have been a perfect instance to use it. Turn 11.5 hours into about 30 seconds, but of course creating the function would add to the time too, depending on your skill level.
But we're talking about emails that were scanned into PDF files. And the quality is quite poor. Plus I had to check for content and redundancy. How would you have done it?

The other issue is that the PDFs aren't all just emails. Each attachment is scanned too - drawings, label art, carton art, bills of materials, China agency docs, etc. The PDFs vary in size from 7K (a single page) to 4G (44 pages).

I'm probably going to have to go back over them again over the next week or so.
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Old 01-25-2016, 11:44 AM   #35996 (permalink)
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But we're talking about emails that were scanned into PDF files. And the quality is quite poor. Plus I had to check for content and redundancy. How would you have done it?

The other issue is that the PDFs aren't all just emails. Each attachment is scanned too - drawings, label art, carton art, bills of materials, China agency docs, etc. The PDFs vary in size from 7K (a single page) to 4G (44 pages).

I'm probably going to have to go back over them again over the next week or so.
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Old 01-25-2016, 12:57 PM   #35997 (permalink)
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But we're talking about emails that were scanned into PDF files. And the quality is quite poor. Plus I had to check for content and redundancy. How would you have done it?

The other issue is that the PDFs aren't all just emails. Each attachment is scanned too - drawings, label art, carton art, bills of materials, China agency docs, etc. The PDFs vary in size from 7K (a single page) to 4G (44 pages).

I'm probably going to have to go back over them again over the next week or so.
I'd use OCR Text Recognition in Adobe Acrobat Pro to get everything into ASCII format, then go from there. I'd need to know a little bit more about the structure of the information, and the constraints with which to query before I could tell you exactly what to do, but generally searching ASCII files and populating an Excel spreadsheet with the data is a fairly easy task.
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Old 01-25-2016, 01:17 PM   #35998 (permalink)
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I'd use OCR Text Recognition in Adobe Acrobat Pro to get everything into ASCII format, then go from there. I'd need to know a little bit more about the structure of the information, and the constraints with which to query before I could tell you exactly what to do, but generally searching ASCII files and populating an Excel spreadsheet with the data is a fairly easy task.
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Old 01-25-2016, 01:34 PM   #35999 (permalink)
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I also grew up in Boston and I find sports unbearably dull. Never had any sports idols. Never been able to sit through a sporting event without getting bored.
I think age group has a lot to do with it. When I was a kid there was no cable TV, no home computers, no video games, no Molly Ringwald, etc. There was basically nothing else to do but play sports and keep up with the home teams.
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Old 01-25-2016, 01:38 PM   #36000 (permalink)
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I think age group has a lot to do with it. When I was a kid there was no cable TV, no home computers, no video games, no Molly Ringwald, etc. There was basically nothing else to do but play sports and keep up with the home teams.
They hadn't invented music yet back then?
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