[time-nuts] 3586A HQ PDF Manual available -optimization-

[J. Forster]

Ask Dave at ArtekMedia. His manuals have indices in the .pdfs. They might
be automatically done, which implies OCR.

FWIW,

-John

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> You obviously haven't come across all of the Adobe acrobat OCR'd manuals
> on logsa.  They are amazingly unusable.  The OCR program gets way off
> kilter, and makes a mess of large sections of the manuals... and
> unfortunately,
> nobody has the resources to proofread the results.
>
> Don't waste your time on the Heathkit manual.  The license to reproduce
> the
> manuals was bought up by some little ham company, and they are very
> inclined
> to chase down any heathkit manuals on the internet, and serve the hosting
> site
> with a take down notice.  The only thing you are "allowed" to put on the
> net is the
> schematic.
>
> -Chuck Harris
>
> Chris Albertson wrote:
>> The best thing you can do after you scan a manual is run it through OCR.
>> If you have Acrobat then you have one of the best OCR systems around.
>> This dramatically improves the readabilty and crispness of the text and
>> at the same time makes the document much smaller and also it makes
>> it searchable.     It does require a bit of time because you have to
>> check
>> the quality of the OCR.  But it mostly works well.  I'm working on a
>> Heatkit
>> manual I have but is not yet available on-line.  It will be OCR'd.
>>
>>
>
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