Michael, Your a good man, that's what I wanted to hear. Like a lot of
you I've selectively cut out interesting articles and to do projects,
only to have them get put into box to never to be seen again. I had
thought about the PDF format as it is so common, but I had no idea it
was searchable! I'm just starting to get into that in my business,
photographers used to shoot a job and file the negs and transparencies
in a file cabinet for the future. Now we have a stack of gold or silver
disks a mile high, so finally some thought is being given to making
these disks searchable. I-View Media Pro is common in our business and
is used to create catalogues using key words. For instance if you had
MR articles about NYC steam engines, you would key in NYC, steam
engines, perhaps the date and perhaps the location. Then you could
specify Ohio+ steam engines+1945 to see what steam engines come up.
My main hang up is the scanning. I have several scanners but since they
produce very large high quality files they are slow and require total
operator presence. I could see spending months scanning, converting and
then cataloguing. Your use of high speed scanners is a winner.
Bob
Greene, Michael wrote:
> Bob,
>
> The Maine Junction Railroad has just approved a new paperwork
> reduction policy. All model railroad magazines (in our library and
> future acquisitions) will be converted to electronic format (for
> personal use only). We ran a pilot project in late 2005 and early
> 2006 on one periodical in which we converted 20 years of the
> publication (20-30 page monthly newsletters) into searchable PDF format.
>
> I ran the pilot with a borrowed Canon high speed scanner (a grayscale
> scanner that was available prior to the current DR-3080CII color
> version), and a copy of Adobe Acrobat Exchange which we already
> o
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