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Frequently Asked Questions

Q: With the side-by-side view, is there a trick to making the rows easier to input content into? Is there a way to increase the depth of the table so that the first few rows are visible? 

A: In your table configuration, make sure you set the default number of rows (generally to match your material). You need to set a number of rows to display in the spreadsheet configuration. (Step 8 here:  https://content.fromthepage.com/spreadsheet-configuration/)

Q: Is there a setting where for this project the first image of the uploaded work can be the featured image?

A: For the featured image, we grab one at random, but you can set the featured image by clicking on the title of the work, then “pages”, then finding the page you want and clicking “make featured image”.

Q: There are at least two of us who need to log in to manage the projects. Should we make a general login and share the credentials or is there a way to add another user? 

A: Have your staff create their own accounts and add them to your first collection as owners (right side of the settings tab). They’ll be able to manage that collection and it marks them as staff for your account, so they’ll be able to create new collections. They’ll receive the nightly status emails. The only thing they won’t be able to do is delete collections.

Q: How do I download the transcribed data from the tables? When I try to download, I only get metadata about transcriptions.

A: If you go to the “export all” (top choice on the export tab) you will have an option to download all the table data for the collection as a zip.

Q: How do we integrate OCR with From the Page?

A: There are a couple of answers to that depending on where your OCR is now. If you're using CONTENTdm, you can just check the checkbox to pull it in when you import material. If you're uploading PDFs with a text layer, you can just check the checkbox to pull it in when you import material. If you're uploading zip files of images, you can create text files or TEI-xml files that match the image files' names.  More information here:
https://content.fromthepage.com/project-owner-documentation/uploading-existing-transcriptions/If you have IIIF manifests with your transcription as web annotations, we're working with the State Library of New South Wales to build an ingestion path, but it's not ready yet.

Q: We're not sure of the volume of transcription at this stage. Is it possible to start on the researcher plan, and shift up a plan if we require more pages to be transcribed?
A:
Absolutely.  The key difference, other than page count, is that under the researcher plan you can only have a single collection.  "Collection", in FromThePage, is the level that controls the configuration for the project.  So if you want to do full text transcription of letters or diaries AND a spreadsheet indexing project of government records those would need to be two separate collections.

Q: Is it possible to set up an institutional account/collections rather than it being under my user name?
A:
Yes. You can change the email and display name associated with your account by clicking on the "Sign in as..." in the top right, then "Your Profile", and "edit profile".  To change the email you choose "login & password".  Alternatively, if you have a service-style email you could create another account with that and we could move your collections to it. 

Q: Is there a way to download the transcription line by line as it appears on the transcription screen? It would be helpful to have the transcription download with original line breaks.

A: You’ll find the type of export you want in the “export all works” (button on the top of the export screen); there’s a “verbatim plaintext” option that preserves the line breaks and hyphens. 

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