Re: scanning a ton of documentation

2021-09-24 Thread Michael Mulhern via cctalk
Confirming IA will derive off PDF as well as CBZ to generate OCRed PDFs. //m On Fri, 24 Sep 2021 at 7:33 pm, Christian Corti via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 2021, Al Kossow wrote: > > On 9/22/21 1:51 PM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: > >> Hasn't worked for me in

Re: scanning a ton of documentation

2021-09-24 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 9/24/21 2:32 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: Don't get me wrong, but I had written some emails in the last years offering stuff for bitsavers (downloadable from our FTP site). They never made it into the archives. Christian I know I've put some things up. Sometimes offers get lost

Re: scanning a ton of documentation

2021-09-24 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Wed, 22 Sep 2021, Al Kossow wrote: On 9/22/21 1:51 PM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: Hasn't worked for me in the past ... guess I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue Don't get me wrong, but I had written some emails in the last years offering stuff for bitsavers (downloadable from

Re: scanning a ton of documentation

2021-09-24 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Wed, 22 Sep 2021, Al Kossow wrote: Bitsavers will post process and create a searchable PDF Since when? I think I'll just step away from the terminal for a few hours. I've been OCRing uploads for YEARS. Ok, I didn't know that you do that for foreign scans, I thought you only OCR your

Re: scanning a ton of documentation

2021-09-22 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Wed, 22 Sep 2021, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2021, Jay Jaeger wrote: B/W, CCITT Group 4 tiffs at 400dpi is what I do, but then I also 600 DPI should be the absolute mininum today. There is absolutely no reason to go below that for B/W. Agreed. Bitsavers will

Re: scanning a ton of documentation

2021-09-22 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Wed, 22 Sep 2021, devin davison via cctalk wrote: I have picked up storage containers for all the books, and i can scan it all. after that, its all probally going in the recycle bin, as i dont know where or how i would keep such a large pile of paper manuals on hand. what is the prefered

Re: scanning a ton of documentation

2021-09-22 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 9/22/21 1:51 PM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: Bitsavers will post process and create a searchable PDF Since when? I think I'll just step away from the terminal for a few hours. I've been OCRing uploads for YEARS.

Re: scanning a ton of documentation

2021-09-22 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 9/22/21 1:51 PM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: Hasn't worked for me in the past ... guess I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue

Re: scanning a ton of documentation

2021-09-22 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Wed, 22 Sep 2021, Jay Jaeger wrote: B/W, CCITT Group 4 tiffs at 400dpi is what I do, but then I also 600 DPI should be the absolute mininum today. There is absolutely no reason to go below that for B/W. and notify Al Kossow of an available contribution. Hasn't worked for me in the

Re: scanning a ton of documentation

2021-09-22 Thread devin davison via cctalk
Thank you all for the information. I would like to preserve the information and get the books to good homes if possible. I will get a listing of what is here. If the others that have modcomp books and docs can list what they have scanned and availible, that can save on a duplication of effort

Re: scanning a ton of documentation

2021-09-22 Thread Lyle Bickley via cctalk
AFAIK, I have an entire library of MODCOMP documentation - consisting of over one thousand manuals as PDF's. I will check with the person who had the original manuals scanned and check to see if it is O.K. to zip them up and give them to AL to post on bitsavers. (I expect them to say "O.K.").

Re: scanning a ton of documentation

2021-09-22 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
> On Sep 22, 2021, at 14:05, devin davison via cctalk > wrote: > > Hello, > > The person that refered me to my present job at a datacenter passed away > this past monday. He was a hardware / software engineer for modcomp > computers. He left me all of the computers and documents. there are

Re: scanning a ton of documentation

2021-09-22 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
Where are you located? We have a small amount of Modcomp docs here and could take on a box more of the most useful paper docs for posterity-sake, to round out what's already here. Thanks Bill Degnan kennettclassic.com Kennett Square, PA On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 3:05 PM devin davison via cctalk <