Better indexing on bitsavers

[Patrick Finnegan]

Dwight K. Elvey declared on Thursday 19 May 2005 07:52 pm:
> >From: "der Mouse" <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca>
>
> ---snip---
>
> >Those (OCRed plain text and PDF files) are not the only options.
>
> Hi
>  Of course, I have a better option. I have some of the actual
> ASCII source text for a few of the manuals used in the
> Polymorphics systems. I lack pictures and diagrams but
> at least there are not OCR errors.
>  I guess this isn't always available for everything :(

This gave me an idea... it'd be nifty if there was OCR software that 
would convert the scanned image into LaTeX.

Barring that, PostScript would even be a decent alternative to PDF - it's 
fairly readable Forth, and any decent printer can accept it to produce a 
new hardcopy.  I know you can convert PDF back to postscript (ie "Print" 
from a pdf viewer on a *NIX machine), but that's probably not the same.

(Yes, I'm saying if a printer can't be made to accept postscript - either 
standard or via an option ROM, it isn't "decent".)

Pat
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