{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# Create 'scissors and paste' messages from Trove newspaper articles\n", "When you search for a term in Trove's digitised newspapers and click on individual article, you'll see your search terms are highlighted. If you look at the code you'll see the highlighted box around the word includes its page coordinates. That means that if we search for a word, we can find where it appears on a page, and by cropping the page to those coordinates we can create an image of an individual word. By combining these images we can create scissors and paste style messages!\n", "\n", "![Scissors and paste example - help trapped inside Trove cannot escape](images/trapped-trove.jpg)\n", "![Scissors and paste example - optical character recognition has achieved consciousness](images/ocr-consciousness.jpg)\n", "\n", "In this notebook you can create your own 'scissors and paste' messages: \n", "\n", "1. Enter a word in the box below and click **Add word**. \n", "2. Because of OCR errors the result might not be what you want, click **Retry last word** to make another attempt.\n", "3. When you've finished adding words, click on the 'Download' link to save.\n", "4. To start again click **Clear all**.\n", "\n", "Some things to note:\n", "\n", "