Comments on: 1611 King James Bible now online

By: Brandon Lott

Brandon Lott — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:26:43 +0000

I love the http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bible?lang=eng" Bible. I think it is such a great learning tool that God has allowed us to have. It is so neat that this was able to take place. I would love to know more about the scanning. The people involved are truly blessed.

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RI Bassfishing Guide About — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:31:30 +0000

Bible is a sacred scriptures, it should be taken care of, good thing to know that bible verses can be reached online.

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modular sectional sofa — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:57:56 +0000

The tips you give on the proccess is great, I read the whole article intently which is a big deal, normally I get side tracked and head over to facebook or twitter, haha

By: Laura Bang

Laura Bang — Tue, 31 May 2011 13:32:11 +0000

Yes, our image processing for all items includes OCR, but it’s likely to be quite inaccurate for the KJV due to the typeset. We do not currently have the ability to search within a particular text, but you can search our digital library, including the OCR of all texts, by using the search box at the top right of the main page: http://digital.library.villanova.edu/

(And it was definitely quite exciting to be able to touch this volume!)

By: Victor

Victor — Sun, 29 May 2011 00:50:35 +0000

That looks like an amazing process. At least you can do the scanning with the book face up. Once documents are scanned like that, is there any optical character recognition process performed to convert from picture to words for easier referencing? (laymen here).

By: jkar photography

jkar photography — Tue, 24 May 2011 05:35:20 +0000

I understand how hard it is to digitize that bulky and old Holy Bible. I experienced that in scanning old photos that was captured during WWII. Its hard to scan because of many factors like the quality of paper, stains, lighting when it was captured. A very challenging task but I am glad that you made it and available online. It will help a lot of bible scholars.

By: Orlando News

Orlando News — Mon, 23 May 2011 16:51:22 +0000

I couldn’t agree more with you about the importance of this book and must say I envy everyone who had a chance to touch something so valuable and influential. I am regular visitor of your digital library, you are doing great job. Wish you all the best in your further work.

By: Touching old things while the world ends | Alexandra Kingsley

Touching old things while the world ends | Alexandra Kingsley — Fri, 20 May 2011 03:11:01 +0000

[...] [You can read more on the digitization process for these bibles here.] [...]