20,046 page doc archive still available

[ed sharpe]

Paul, who made the engine for the plugin iris or?
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From: "Paul Koning" <pkoning at equallogic.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: 20,046 page doc archive still available


> >>>>> "Joshua" == Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> writes:
> 
>  Joshua> On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 01:59:21PM -0500, John Foust wrote:
>  >> I appreciate all the offers to host these files.
>  >> 
>  >> I was surprised that there were no suggestions about how to
>  >> augment these files via OCR or PDF conversion.
> 
>  Joshua> Well, there are certainly plenty of ways to go from bitmaps
>  Joshua> to PDFs of bitmaps, like the old MIT AI Memo PDFs were done.
> 
>  Joshua> A few years ago I tried to OCR some DEC manuals, but I wasn't
>  Joshua> happy with the results I got at all.  One program didn't work
>  Joshua> very well, and the other only wanted to spit out plain text
>  Joshua> without keeping for formatting or diagrams.  They were both
>  Joshua> commercial programs.
> 
> I have had good success with Adobe's OCR plugin for Acrobat -- free
> for the download with a 50 page at a time limit.  (It will do bigger
> docs, in 50 page pieces.)  It worked well enough to produce useful
> output from a manual full of pictures (a flight manual).
> 
>        paul
> 
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