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I'm just reporting what is printed on the Data Professionals website. -Chuck Harris J. Forster wrote: There was a lot of discussion about whether the company actually bought the rights and/or whether the seller, in fact, owned the rights, , or just some filing cabinets of hard copy manuals. FWIW, -John Press Release October 2008 Data Professionals of Pleasanton California has purchased the Copyrights and existing inventory of all legacy Heathkit product documentation from Heath Company of Benton Harbor Michigan for an undisclosed amount. The new company will make copies of the original legacy manuals available to the marketplace via its web site and through eBay and PayPal. -Chuck Harris ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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In a message dated 10/12/2010 10:19:08 GMT Standard Time, rbarri...@msn.com writes: I've downloaded the reduced-size PDF and, although not very obvious, there is loss of quality. See the attached comparison and see how sharpness is reduced on the optimized capture at the right side. My goal was to create the highest possible quality manuals, using the big sharp scans found at KO4BB website. I'd prefer to release them as good (and big) as possible so that anyone who needs it can reduce the size (always at a cost). The optimization can be done at any time but the lost bits are lost forever, - I've also found that the Adobe optimisation option needs to be used with care and subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, loss of quaility seems to be inevitable. I never use it now on files intended for distribution. Whilst modern scanners can produce excellent quality in terms of resolution etc the two big problems I've observed with them, and with the scanning techniques they seem to encourage, are the very large default file sizes they tend to produce and the much reduced contrast, with the latter usually being much more of a nuisance. Both seem to be due to the way in which everything gets treated as colour or greyscale and the only way I've found so far found of dealing with this on completed PDFs is to extract all the pages as TIF files and process them individually for contrast enhancement etc, and superfluous color depth reduction, in something like Photoshop or PaintShopPro. I've had some good results with this but you sure need one heck of a lot of patience and spare time, so mostly these days I give thanks for large hard drives and just try to live with it:-) regards Nigel GM8PZR ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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Hi all, why isn`t please, with respect to all working persones, the DJVU-Formating better as all experiments to reduce some from datavolume? Regularly it needs only ~10%-20% memory as pdf-files... Best greetings! Karesz 2010/12/10 gandal...@aol.com In a message dated 10/12/2010 10:19:08 GMT Standard Time, rbarri...@msn.com writes: I've downloaded the reduced-size PDF and, although not very obvious, there is loss of quality. See the attached comparison and see how sharpness is reduced on the optimized capture at the right side. My goal was to create the highest possible quality manuals, using the big sharp scans found at KO4BB website. I'd prefer to release them as good (and big) as possible so that anyone who needs it can reduce the size (always at a cost). The optimization can be done at any time but the lost bits are lost forever, - I've also found that the Adobe optimisation option needs to be used with care and subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, loss of quaility seems to be inevitable. I never use it now on files intended for distribution. Whilst modern scanners can produce excellent quality in terms of resolution etc the two big problems I've observed with them, and with the scanning techniques they seem to encourage, are the very large default file sizes they tend to produce and the much reduced contrast, with the latter usually being much more of a nuisance. Both seem to be due to the way in which everything gets treated as colour or greyscale and the only way I've found so far found of dealing with this on completed PDFs is to extract all the pages as TIF files and process them individually for contrast enhancement etc, and superfluous color depth reduction, in something like Photoshop or PaintShopPro. I've had some good results with this but you sure need one heck of a lot of patience and spare time, so mostly these days I give thanks for large hard drives and just try to live with it:-) regards Nigel GM8PZR ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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In a message dated 10/12/2010 16:17:29 GMT Standard Time, szeke...@gmail.com writes: why isn`t please, with respect to all working persones, the DJVU-Formating better as all experiments to reduce some from datavolume? Regularly it needs only ~10%-20% memory as pdf-files... - Djvu does generate much smaller files, and at one time I was promoting it just because of that, but that's about the only advantage it offers. It's a shame, because it did seem to promise great things to start with and looked as though it might become a viable alternative to Acrobat but it's never really progressed beyond those early beginnings and, in every other respect other than file size, Acrobat totally wipes the floor with it. Whoops, drifting even further off topic here, apologies for that and back to lurking:-) regards Nigel GM8PZR ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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Because of DJVU's limited support and links to Russian malware/Warez sites. If I see a file with djvu encoding I drop it in the recycle bin without opening as a result of infosec day job. Scott Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: K. Szeker szeke...@gmail.com Sender: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:16:51 To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurementtime-nuts@febo.com Reply-To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 3586A HQ PDF Manual available -optimization- Hi all, why isn`t please, with respect to all working persones, the DJVU-Formating better as all experiments to reduce some from datavolume? Regularly it needs only ~10%-20% memory as pdf-files... Best greetings! Karesz 2010/12/10 gandal...@aol.com In a message dated 10/12/2010 10:19:08 GMT Standard Time, rbarri...@msn.com writes: I've downloaded the reduced-size PDF and, although not very obvious, there is loss of quality. See the attached comparison and see how sharpness is reduced on the optimized capture at the right side. My goal was to create the highest possible quality manuals, using the big sharp scans found at KO4BB website. I'd prefer to release them as good (and big) as possible so that anyone who needs it can reduce the size (always at a cost). The optimization can be done at any time but the lost bits are lost forever, - I've also found that the Adobe optimisation option needs to be used with care and subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, loss of quaility seems to be inevitable. I never use it now on files intended for distribution. Whilst modern scanners can produce excellent quality in terms of resolution etc the two big problems I've observed with them, and with the scanning techniques they seem to encourage, are the very large default file sizes they tend to produce and the much reduced contrast, with the latter usually being much more of a nuisance. Both seem to be due to the way in which everything gets treated as colour or greyscale and the only way I've found so far found of dealing with this on completed PDFs is to extract all the pages as TIF files and process them individually for contrast enhancement etc, and superfluous color depth reduction, in something like Photoshop or PaintShopPro. I've had some good results with this but you sure need one heck of a lot of patience and spare time, so mostly these days I give thanks for large hard drives and just try to live with it:-) regards Nigel GM8PZR ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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Hi PDF does have a lot of flaws. There have been a number of issues with it over the years. It is what pretty much everybody has already installed. It works on just about every platform out there. That includes things like editors. Modern versions are quite good at what goes in is what comes out. Simply put - it's the default standard. DjVu is wonderful for file size, but tough to find a version of for odd platforms. Importing the file into your favorite editor, or exporting the edited result generally involves multi step translation. It's used so rarely that even for supported platforms, the first step will be - go get it and install it. It's got the same sort of security holes that Acrobat has had. It's not got the update empire to patch them. Simply put - it's a work in progress that may never be finished. The money in all this comes from people paying for editors and the like. That's a critical mass sort of thing. I don't see anybody displacing pdf any time soon. I'd love to see it happen, but the deck is stacked against it. For things that have archival value (like manuals) pdf is very much the way to go. The odds of being able to read a pdf 20 or 30 years from now are pretty good. The same is not true of less well known formats. To me that over-rides any of the better / worse / I can get around it stuff. Bob -Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of K. Szeker Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 11:17 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 3586A HQ PDF Manual available -optimization- Hi all, why isn`t please, with respect to all working persones, the DJVU-Formating better as all experiments to reduce some from datavolume? Regularly it needs only ~10%-20% memory as pdf-files... Best greetings! Karesz 2010/12/10 gandal...@aol.com In a message dated 10/12/2010 10:19:08 GMT Standard Time, rbarri...@msn.com writes: I've downloaded the reduced-size PDF and, although not very obvious, there is loss of quality. See the attached comparison and see how sharpness is reduced on the optimized capture at the right side. My goal was to create the highest possible quality manuals, using the big sharp scans found at KO4BB website. I'd prefer to release them as good (and big) as possible so that anyone who needs it can reduce the size (always at a cost). The optimization can be done at any time but the lost bits are lost forever, - I've also found that the Adobe optimisation option needs to be used with care and subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, loss of quaility seems to be inevitable. I never use it now on files intended for distribution. Whilst modern scanners can produce excellent quality in terms of resolution etc the two big problems I've observed with them, and with the scanning techniques they seem to encourage, are the very large default file sizes they tend to produce and the much reduced contrast, with the latter usually being much more of a nuisance. Both seem to be due to the way in which everything gets treated as colour or greyscale and the only way I've found so far found of dealing with this on completed PDFs is to extract all the pages as TIF files and process them individually for contrast enhancement etc, and superfluous color depth reduction, in something like Photoshop or PaintShopPro. I've had some good results with this but you sure need one heck of a lot of patience and spare time, so mostly these days I give thanks for large hard drives and just try to live with it:-) regards Nigel GM8PZR ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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DJVU does work well but is quite uncommon. Every PC shipped these days seems to have adobe on it. On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:16 AM, K. Szeker szeke...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, why isn`t please, with respect to all working persones, the DJVU-Formating better as all experiments to reduce some from datavolume? Regularly it needs only ~10%-20% memory as pdf-files... Best greetings! Karesz 2010/12/10 gandal...@aol.com In a message dated 10/12/2010 10:19:08 GMT Standard Time, rbarri...@msn.com writes: I've downloaded the reduced-size PDF and, although not very obvious, there is loss of quality. See the attached comparison and see how sharpness is reduced on the optimized capture at the right side. My goal was to create the highest possible quality manuals, using the big sharp scans found at KO4BB website. I'd prefer to release them as good (and big) as possible so that anyone who needs it can reduce the size (always at a cost). The optimization can be done at any time but the lost bits are lost forever, - I've also found that the Adobe optimisation option needs to be used with care and subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, loss of quaility seems to be inevitable. I never use it now on files intended for distribution. Whilst modern scanners can produce excellent quality in terms of resolution etc the two big problems I've observed with them, and with the scanning techniques they seem to encourage, are the very large default file sizes they tend to produce and the much reduced contrast, with the latter usually being much more of a nuisance. Both seem to be due to the way in which everything gets treated as colour or greyscale and the only way I've found so far found of dealing with this on completed PDFs is to extract all the pages as TIF files and process them individually for contrast enhancement etc, and superfluous color depth reduction, in something like Photoshop or PaintShopPro. I've had some good results with this but you sure need one heck of a lot of patience and spare time, so mostly these days I give thanks for large hard drives and just try to live with it:-) regards Nigel GM8PZR ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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DJVU is a wavelet decomposition scheme so as zoom in is done, the resolution stays the same. Quite different from adobe. Unfortunately for Lizardtech, DJVU never quite caught on. Don paul swed DJVU does work well but is quite uncommon. Every PC shipped these days seems to have adobe on it. On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:16 AM, K. Szeker szeke...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, why isn`t please, with respect to all working persones, the DJVU-Formating better as all experiments to reduce some from datavolume? Regularly it needs only ~10%-20% memory as pdf-files... Best greetings! Karesz 2010/12/10 gandal...@aol.com In a message dated 10/12/2010 10:19:08 GMT Standard Time, rbarri...@msn.com writes: I've downloaded the reduced-size PDF and, although not very obvious, there is loss of quality. See the attached comparison and see how sharpness is reduced on the optimized capture at the right side. My goal was to create the highest possible quality manuals, using the big sharp scans found at KO4BB website. I'd prefer to release them as good (and big) as possible so that anyone who needs it can reduce the size (always at a cost). The optimization can be done at any time but the lost bits are lost forever, - I've also found that the Adobe optimisation option needs to be used with care and subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, loss of quaility seems to be inevitable. I never use it now on files intended for distribution. Whilst modern scanners can produce excellent quality in terms of resolution etc the two big problems I've observed with them, and with the scanning techniques they seem to encourage, are the very large default file sizes they tend to produce and the much reduced contrast, with the latter usually being much more of a nuisance. Both seem to be due to the way in which everything gets treated as colour or greyscale and the only way I've found so far found of dealing with this on completed PDFs is to extract all the pages as TIF files and process them individually for contrast enhancement etc, and superfluous color depth reduction, in something like Photoshop or PaintShopPro. I've had some good results with this but you sure need one heck of a lot of patience and spare time, so mostly these days I give thanks for large hard drives and just try to live with it:-) regards Nigel GM8PZR ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. -- Neither the voice of authority nor the weight of reason and argument are as significant as experiment, for thence comes quiet to the mind. R. Bacon Dr. Don Latham AJ7LL Six Mile Systems LLP 17850 Six Mile Road POB 134 Huson, MT, 59846 VOX 406-626-4304 www.lightningforensics.com www.sixmilesystems.com ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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The best thing you can do after you scan a manual is run it through OCR. If you have Acrobat then you have one of the best OCR systems around. This dramatically improves the readabilty and crispness of the text and at the same time makes the document much smaller and also it makes it searchable. It does require a bit of time because you have to check the quality of the OCR. But it mostly works well. I'm working on a Heatkit manual I have but is not yet available on-line. It will be OCR'd. -- = Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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Lizartech had a long legal dispute with ER Mapper concerning wavelets compression patents. Both companies suffered a money bleeding and finally both were sold, Lizardtech to a Japanese company and ER Mapper to Leica's ERDAS Inc. (now Hexagon Group). Ignacio, EB4APL El 10/12/2010 19:19, Don Latham wrote: DJVU is a wavelet decomposition scheme so as zoom in is done, the resolution stays the same. Quite different from adobe. Unfortunately for Lizardtech, DJVU never quite caught on. Don paul swed ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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You obviously haven't come across all of the Adobe acrobat OCR'd manuals on logsa. They are amazingly unusable. The OCR program gets way off kilter, and makes a mess of large sections of the manuals... and unfortunately, nobody has the resources to proofread the results. Don't waste your time on the Heathkit manual. The license to reproduce the manuals was bought up by some little ham company, and they are very inclined to chase down any heathkit manuals on the internet, and serve the hosting site with a take down notice. The only thing you are allowed to put on the net is the schematic. -Chuck Harris Chris Albertson wrote: The best thing you can do after you scan a manual is run it through OCR. If you have Acrobat then you have one of the best OCR systems around. This dramatically improves the readabilty and crispness of the text and at the same time makes the document much smaller and also it makes it searchable. It does require a bit of time because you have to check the quality of the OCR. But it mostly works well. I'm working on a Heatkit manual I have but is not yet available on-line. It will be OCR'd. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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Ask Dave at ArtekMedia. His manuals have indices in the .pdfs. They might be automatically done, which implies OCR. FWIW, -John You obviously haven't come across all of the Adobe acrobat OCR'd manuals on logsa. They are amazingly unusable. The OCR program gets way off kilter, and makes a mess of large sections of the manuals... and unfortunately, nobody has the resources to proofread the results. Don't waste your time on the Heathkit manual. The license to reproduce the manuals was bought up by some little ham company, and they are very inclined to chase down any heathkit manuals on the internet, and serve the hosting site with a take down notice. The only thing you are allowed to put on the net is the schematic. -Chuck Harris Chris Albertson wrote: The best thing you can do after you scan a manual is run it through OCR. If you have Acrobat then you have one of the best OCR systems around. This dramatically improves the readabilty and crispness of the text and at the same time makes the document much smaller and also it makes it searchable. It does require a bit of time because you have to check the quality of the OCR. But it mostly works well. I'm working on a Heatkit manual I have but is not yet available on-line. It will be OCR'd. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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Chuck, Really ? Which little ham company is that ? BillWB6BNQ Chuck Harris wrote: You obviously haven't come across all of the Adobe acrobat OCR'd manuals on logsa. They are amazingly unusable. The OCR program gets way off kilter, and makes a mess of large sections of the manuals... and unfortunately, nobody has the resources to proofread the results. Don't waste your time on the Heathkit manual. The license to reproduce the manuals was bought up by some little ham company, and they are very inclined to chase down any heathkit manuals on the internet, and serve the hosting site with a take down notice. The only thing you are allowed to put on the net is the schematic. -Chuck Harris Chris Albertson wrote: The best thing you can do after you scan a manual is run it through OCR. If you have Acrobat then you have one of the best OCR systems around. This dramatically improves the readabilty and crispness of the text and at the same time makes the document much smaller and also it makes it searchable. It does require a bit of time because you have to check the quality of the OCR. But it mostly works well. I'm working on a Heatkit manual I have but is not yet available on-line. It will be OCR'd. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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I was a long thread on the Boatanchors, ArmyRadios, or Milsurplus list. Probably on the Heathkit list also. -John == Chuck, Really ? Which little ham company is that ? BillWB6BNQ Chuck Harris wrote: You obviously haven't come across all of the Adobe acrobat OCR'd manuals on logsa. They are amazingly unusable. The OCR program gets way off kilter, and makes a mess of large sections of the manuals... and unfortunately, nobody has the resources to proofread the results. Don't waste your time on the Heathkit manual. The license to reproduce the manuals was bought up by some little ham company, and they are very inclined to chase down any heathkit manuals on the internet, and serve the hosting site with a take down notice. The only thing you are allowed to put on the net is the schematic. -Chuck Harris Chris Albertson wrote: The best thing you can do after you scan a manual is run it through OCR. If you have Acrobat then you have one of the best OCR systems around. This dramatically improves the readabilty and crispness of the text and at the same time makes the document much smaller and also it makes it searchable. It does require a bit of time because you have to check the quality of the OCR. But it mostly works well. I'm working on a Heatkit manual I have but is not yet available on-line. It will be OCR'd. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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Press Release October 2008 Data Professionals of Pleasanton California has purchased the Copyrights and existing inventory of all legacy Heathkit product documentation from Heath Company of Benton Harbor Michigan for an undisclosed amount. The new company will make copies of the original legacy manuals available to the marketplace via its web site and through eBay and PayPal. -Chuck Harris WB6BNQ wrote: Chuck, Really ? Which little ham company is that ? BillWB6BNQ Chuck Harris wrote: You obviously haven't come across all of the Adobe acrobat OCR'd manuals on logsa. They are amazingly unusable. The OCR program gets way off kilter, and makes a mess of large sections of the manuals... and unfortunately, nobody has the resources to proofread the results. Don't waste your time on the Heathkit manual. The license to reproduce the manuals was bought up by some little ham company, and they are very inclined to chase down any heathkit manuals on the internet, and serve the hosting site with a take down notice. The only thing you are allowed to put on the net is the schematic. -Chuck Harris Chris Albertson wrote: The best thing you can do after you scan a manual is run it through OCR. If you have Acrobat then you have one of the best OCR systems around. This dramatically improves the readabilty and crispness of the text and at the same time makes the document much smaller and also it makes it searchable. It does require a bit of time because you have to check the quality of the OCR. But it mostly works well. I'm working on a Heatkit manual I have but is not yet available on-line. It will be OCR'd. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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There was a lot of discussion about whether the company actually bought the rights and/or whether the seller, in fact, owned the rights, , or just some filing cabinets of hard copy manuals. FWIW, -John Press Release October 2008 Data Professionals of Pleasanton California has purchased the Copyrights and existing inventory of all legacy Heathkit product documentation from Heath Company of Benton Harbor Michigan for an undisclosed amount. The new company will make copies of the original legacy manuals available to the marketplace via its web site and through eBay and PayPal. -Chuck Harris WB6BNQ wrote: Chuck, Really ? Which little ham company is that ? BillWB6BNQ Chuck Harris wrote: You obviously haven't come across all of the Adobe acrobat OCR'd manuals on logsa. They are amazingly unusable. The OCR program gets way off kilter, and makes a mess of large sections of the manuals... and unfortunately, nobody has the resources to proofread the results. Don't waste your time on the Heathkit manual. The license to reproduce the manuals was bought up by some little ham company, and they are very inclined to chase down any heathkit manuals on the internet, and serve the hosting site with a take down notice. The only thing you are allowed to put on the net is the schematic. -Chuck Harris Chris Albertson wrote: The best thing you can do after you scan a manual is run it through OCR. If you have Acrobat then you have one of the best OCR systems around. This dramatically improves the readabilty and crispness of the text and at the same time makes the document much smaller and also it makes it searchable. It does require a bit of time because you have to check the quality of the OCR. But it mostly works well. I'm working on a Heatkit manual I have but is not yet available on-line. It will be OCR'd. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
