Some of the PDFs on bitsavers are searchable. It would be a good project to OCR the rest into searchable pdfs - as that also means that the text can be extracted. OCR is getting good enough (finally) that it's feasible. I'm sure that they'd be accepted back into bitsavers - searchable is good for everyone.
For the Bookreader stuff - I wrote code to navigate it with my Braille workstations, but it won't work on other hardware. Much of the later releases of VMS also shipped a PC format CD that can be read with a screen reader. In the next few months, I'll be contributing a large collection of those to CHM. Before I wrote that, I was able to get some of the docs in text format from the tech writers; sadly that option no longer exists. Most of the TOPS documentation was originally done in Runoff, later DEC Standard Runoff. Sources are, I think, on the later tapes. That's easy to turn into readable text files. Unfortunately, by the end I think they were converted to VAX Document & shipped as postscript. There's always ps2text, but the quality is variable to bad. On 05-Feb-16 17:50, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi All, > > So the recent RSTS/E discussion has got me wondering what OS’s I might be > able to run under SIMH with readable documentation. As a totally blind > enthusiast I can’t really use the Bitsavers collection without manually > running OCR on the PDFs, a tedious and error-prone process. > I’m aware VMS is recent enough to have a lot of its documentation available > in an electronic format, but I’m curious if there’s anything else out there. > I’ve recently downloaded several .tap files for RSTS and Tops-20, for > instance, but have been running into trouble when booting them. > I guess I’m just curious how a lot of these systems were installed. > > Has any work been done on retyping some of the documentation? > Thanks much, > Zack. > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
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