Posted on 10/12/2008 8:16:43 PM PDT by steve0
I will abandon this project unless I get some help. I need volunteers to commit to the project and give me their email address. I have had one Freeper donate money and several Freepers commit to help with non-monetary part only to flake out later. I asked Freepers for the following, but you people have only partially delivered. If someone has ghostwritten Obama's "memoirs" lets find out who.
1. Volunteer to find or type in Ayers book “Fugitive Days” into electronic form* 2. Money for basic analysis software- DONE(fellow freeper) 3. Obama’s “memoirs” translated into electronic form-Partially DONE(need to correct format of electronic copy, paragraphs etc.)
PLEASE help me get the initial analysis completed now. We just need this one last item completed to enable us to do an objective empirical analysis. Thanks for any help you can give. If everyone typed in a chapter we could make quick work of this potential connection.
I promise to keep Jack Cashill http://www.cashill.com at World Net Daily informed by email so we don’t duplicate our efforts and waste resources. Investigating the issue of whether William Ayers ghost wrote Obama's books is important.
Why? 1. William Ayers, 60’s Bomber has a similar memoir entitled “Fugitive Days” 2. It would add fuel to the fire of yet another Obama deception 3. See my post and links to other Freeper posts here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100133/posts
*I have some stuff of Ayers in electronic format but “Fugitive Days” seems to be a big one in terms of similarity, purpose and scope. Amazon has about 3 pages in electronic form but we need the whole thing. Can anyone find one at your local library? Also, see my crude initial analysis that proves at least some similarities. See palin247.com.
I am using "signature" software Stylometry analysis software can download here: http://www.philocomp.net/?pageref=humanities&page=signature and may try
http://www.mathcs.duq.edu/~fa05ryan/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
I have the links to Obama' "memoirs" here Dreams From My Father (PDF) http://obamalover.googlepages.com/DreamsFromMyFather.pdf
Audacity of Hope (PDF) http://obamalover.googlepages.com/AudacityOfHope-ThoughtsOnReclaimingT.pdf but they still have formatting problems with paragraphing etc.
Please Note that I was not first on this issue, it was these two that previously posted about the issue:
Travis McGee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2099532/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2099532/posts?q=1&;page=1 attiladhun2 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085368/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2085368/posts
My wife does it, but is unavailable, we are having our baby in about 9 hours. Sorry. (and I'm still FReepin'!!!)
...of all the silly excuses I’ve ever heard! (shaking head...)
Good luck with the baby!!!
I am not a computer person....if one sent a little money, would that help?...and to who....
I just heard a rerun of bill cunningham’s show..there already was a eprson who has done this anlysis. he gave his analysis on the show. i can’t remember his name.
I can possibly help with the typing. Send me a private message. We can communicate further from there.
My cheap HP printer/fax/scanner has an OCR (optical character recognition) feature. I have converted faxes to text with few problems. I have no idea how it would work on a whole book, or how long it would take.
What was the conclusion? Did Ayers write it or not?
I’m bumping this for you.
You should be able to scan the books faster than typing them... then use Adobe Acrobat to cut and paste them into MS Word... It should go through just fine.
Don’t they have scanners that can recognize type, and convert the documents into searchable PDFs?
If you have a multiple sheet feeder probably as fast as you could slice the pages and feed them?
Yes, make an offer, a bounty. How much can you contribute. Whatever it is maybe it would be enough for someone reading this post to take time from their work or whatever their doing to secure an electronic copy of “Fugitive Days” from their local library or university. You could pay that person directly a bounty if they produce it to me or post it here on Free Republic.
Absolutely!
This guy really really did a thorough analysis, with lots of different techniques and assistant.
Stenographer???
1. Unbind the book...go to office max and they will cut the binding for a dollar or two
2. Use a sheet fed scanner to scan the book into the Adobe Acrobat program, make it OCR the scan
3. The final product should be a .pdf document that is complete text, ready to export if necessary
Entire process should take an hour or two tops.
Don’t pay anyone to type the book when hardware/software can do it faster and cheaper.
Are the books available in ebook format? If not, do you know someone with a scanner to OCR it to electronic format?
He hasn’t responded to my email to see if I could get a electronic copy from him. Secondly, he has not done an analysis using the “Signature” software referenced above.
I think there's plenty of these things at the DNC.
Unsure, maybe a day or less. If you had the book, you could scan it and send me the images and I could take it from there.
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