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Microfilm of the County Press newspaper has been scanned and converted to image files (high quality jpegs) and are then processed with optical character recognition (OCR). This creates digital text which is put in a database and is searchable.

The digital text OCR creates is not 100 per cent accurate. The accuracy depends on the quality of the original film, the style of the font, the size of the font and the design of the text on the page.
The OCR scans all text on the page so you may be delivered results from adverts. On occasions there may be text on the page that has not been processed by the OCR, which means some reports may not come up through the search.

Pages scanned from microfilm (1884-2005) will be a lower quality image than the pdf pages (2006-present).

There may be occasions when the original print quality of a page has led to OCR problems. This could lead to problems searching those pages, despite them including the chosen keywords or search terms.

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We hope this explains things - Please contact us if you have any further questions.

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Some legal bits

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The law

These Terms are made under English law, and any arguments about them will only be heard in English courts.

Missing pages from the Isle of Wight County Press Archive

Unfortunately, there is a small selection of pages missing from our archive. The following pages are not available:

1916:	Whole edition of December 30
1918:	July 13 - pages 1 and 2
1993:	January 8 - pages 25 and 26 June 4 - pages 43 and 44 February 12 - pages 34 and 47 February 19 - page 49 July 9 - pages 27 and 28
1994:	January 7 - pages 43 and 44 July 15 - pages 25 and 26 December 2 - pages 51 and 52
1995:	January 6 - pages 45 and 46 July 7 - pages 27 and 28
1996:	April 4 - pages 51 and 52
1997:	May 9 - pages 47 and 48 May 30 - pages 47 and 48
2001:	January 26 - pages 53