Old Typesetting files

[Zane H. Healy]

>At 08:45 PM 11/11/04 -0800, you wrote:
>>I'm aware of someone that is looking to get some of the books they
>>publish into a modern format.  Curently the data exists in such
>>formats as IBM Mag Cards and Scenicwriter, as well as other formats.
>>Does anyone know of anyway of converting these two formats into
>>something like RTF?
>
>    If they published the books then probably the easiest way to get 
>them into modern formats is to OCR the books. I doubt you're going 
>to be able to find anything to read the Scenicwriter and IBM Mag 
>cards.
>
>     Joe

Actually the company that apparently made Scenicwriter still sells 
software that can handle the files, but I don't think it can convert 
them.  The IBM Mag cards on the other hand...

The interesting thing is they're looking for people to type the books 
into the computer rather than OCR them.  And yes, there has already 
been quite a bit of discussion on if OCRing them wouldn't make more 
sense.

			Zane

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