Better indexing on bitsavers

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Thu, 2005-05-19 21:54:48 -0500, Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org> wrote:
> Dwight K. Elvey declared on Thursday 19 May 2005 07:52 pm:
> > >From: "der Mouse" <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca>
> >  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.

That's called 'gocr'. Works, somewhat.

> 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.

PS and PDF are quite similar, with PS additionally giving you quite a
complex programming language (that PDF lacks).

MfG, JBG

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