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

[J. Forster]

I was a long thread on the Boatanchors, ArmyRadios, or Milsurplus list.
Probably on the Heathkit list also.

-John

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> Chuck,
>
> Really ?  Which little ham company is that ?
>
> Bill....WB6BNQ
>
> Chuck Harris wrote:
>
>> 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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