IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

Coming out

· Socialist Challenge No. 52, 29 June 1978 · p. 8 of the scan · 195 words

The scan: sc-n52-jun-29-1978.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 6-6 of 6; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 8 of the scan

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