Do you have an example.  I'm working on the templating for the MarcEdit AI
integration that works with openai, gemini or ollama (for local
processing).  I've not tested finished records -- mostly images of card
catalogs, documents (pdfs, docx, etc.), or digitized images.

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On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM Blake, Wil <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hello Erich,
>
> You might try MarcEdit. A 2015 project with links below has a
> semi-automated approach using text editing tools to make the data file
> acceptable to MarcEdit's "MarcMaker" feature. Good luck.
>
>
> MarcEdit Features
> https://marcedit.reeset.net/features
>
> Example Project, Fixing Marc Records
>
> http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2015/07/worked-example-fixing-marc-data-1/
>
> Project Part 2 Using a Text Editor to repair the data
>
> http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2015/07/worked-example-fixing-marc-data-2/
>
> Regards,
> Wil Blake
>
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> Erich F
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> Subject: [EXTERNAL EMAIL] [CODE4LIB] Converting image of MARC to text MARC?
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> Without going into details, we inherited a sizeable collection of physical
> materials from another library, and were only able to capture the unique
> MARC records in image (PDF) form.
>
> Visually, they are quite readable and obviously MARC (to a human eye).
> They are OCR'd, but as you can imagine, the text is in blocks that when
> collectively copied do not paste into any useable order that would allow us
> to process them.  Copy/pasting every little block of text into the right
> order would take as much time (likely more) than simply re-typing them all
> (although possibly with less error).
>
> Does anyone know of a way to automatically convert these into useable
> MARC?  It feels like something AI could do if trained, but I haven't a clue
> how to go about doing that.
>
> Thanks,
> Erich
>
>
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