Re: (ET) Re: newly designated librarian for elec-trak

["SteveS" <ssawtelle fcc net>]

I agree with the OCR. That's what I have done with the manuals I have
scanned where I can. The software I use keeps pictures as pictures and 
turns
text into text - even on the same page. With a decent original it's very,
very good. Sometimes it misses a large header or black text on red. It came
with the scanner (it's at home - don't remember the name).  The end result
is a very useable manual, though maybe not an exact copy of the original.

Also there are shareware PDF creators. I use PDFEdit995 - seems to work ok.

I'd be happy to do some scanning as well. I've done most of what I have 
that
is not bound and sent it to Elec-Trak.org - hopefully it will show up on 
the
next update.

- SteveS
E12Ss
E20




----- Original Message -----
From: Solid Technologies <solidtech qwest net>
To: 'Herb Crary' <jhcrary earthlink net>; 'Elec-trak Mail List'
<elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 11:20 PM
Subject: RE: (ET) Re: newly designated librarian for elec-trak


> Herb/all,
>   For the conversion of hardcopy (printed) to softcopy we should:
> 1. Do Optical Character Recognition (OCR) wherever practical - this takes
up
> LOTS less space for storage and transmission.  The only trick is having
good
> OCR software so accuracy is high.
>
> 2. Do graphics capture only for drawings - and do that at a high enough
> resolution for all the labels on those schematics and those exploded
views.
>
>   Knowing the number of pages would be good - maybe just an estimate of
the
> number of inches of material and a good estimate of pages-per-inch would
> suffice.  Spreading the work around is a good idea.  Maybe Paul can
provide
> this estimate?
>
>   I also have the full Adobe Acrobat (not just the reader) product so I
can
> convert various formats into PDF files.
>
>   Herb - you're right, I'm just down the road in Colorado Springs.  
> When's
> the tractor pull this year?
>
> --joe
>
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