Re: [Ql-Users] Sinclair QL Printer
Timothy Swenson wrote: I scanned this manual a few years ago and it was individual images. It might be my version that you have. It is possible to use OCR software to convert the images to text and then put that into a word processor and produce a final output. This will take time and may not be exact as the manual. Using ImageMagick (open source), it is possible to take a number of JPEG images and convert them into a PDF file. The PDF file will be the same size as the JPEG images combined. Meaning, if you have 10 1 MEG JPEG images, the PDF will be 10 megs. Tim Swenson Ah, that might be it. I have tried to OCR it but results were very poor on some pages I tried, so I gave up. It would probably be easier to retype the manual than correct all the errors it threw up. What I was trying to do was group the pages into sections to make it easier to download a few MB at a time rather than all 70 or so pages individually. Nitro-PDF Express can combine pages, but not with the protection flags set, which prevents manipulation of the original files. I didn't try to check if the bitmaps could be extracted from the PDFs (not all protection levels were set), so I'll try this. Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Sinclair QL Printer
Dilwyn if you can send me one of the worst page images I will see if my software can do anything with it, no promises though :) Lee -: Back to the QL :- - Original Message - From: Timothy Swenson To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 3:07 AM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Sinclair QL Printer I scanned this manual a few years ago and it was individual images. It might be my version that you have. It is possible to use OCR software to convert the images to text and then put that into a word processor and produce a final output. This will take time and may not be exact as the manual. Using ImageMagick (open source), it is possible to take a number of JPEG images and convert them into a PDF file. The PDF file will be the same size as the JPEG images combined. Meaning, if you have 10 1 MEG JPEG images, the PDF will be 10 megs. Tim Swenson ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Sinclair QL Printer
Lee Privett wrote: Dilwyn if you can send me one of the worst page images I will see if my software can do anything with it, no promises though :) OK, coming right up...to your private email address. I'm assuming that as Tim Swenson mentioned it might be his original scans, that he would have said if he still had the manual or the original JPGs. Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Sinclair QL Printer
I'll see if I can dig up my original copies. I've found that the OCR software that comes with MS Office Professional is pretty good. Used it to OCR about 400 newspaper articles. Tim Swenson ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] Sinclair QL Printer
I would like to put together a copy of the manual for the Sinclair QL Printer, which I think is a badged Seikosha SP1000A with a QL character set ROM, for the replacement manuals section on my website. I have obtained from somewhere a set of individual PDFs of each page. Unfortunately they are scanned as graphics and also protected, so I can't even combine them into easier to handle groups of pages. Anybody out there got a manual for this printer which I could borrow to rescan, or even better got an unprotected scan of the pages? Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Sinclair QL Printer
I scanned this manual a few years ago and it was individual images. It might be my version that you have. It is possible to use OCR software to convert the images to text and then put that into a word processor and produce a final output. This will take time and may not be exact as the manual. Using ImageMagick (open source), it is possible to take a number of JPEG images and convert them into a PDF file. The PDF file will be the same size as the JPEG images combined. Meaning, if you have 10 1 MEG JPEG images, the PDF will be 10 megs. Tim Swenson ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
