Funny you mention that. That's what I tried to use yesterday when I put up the excerpt from CGF #1. It did a reasonable job (actually, an excellent job), for anything with a light background. The problem was with text areas with darker backgrounds (for example, the Ultima tidbit and the Data East/Epyx lawsuit). Acrobat tended to identify those as image zones and didn't recognize the text. And unfortunately the Acrobat plug-in doesn't give you the option of identifying which zones are text and which are not. So that's why I didn't bother with OCR for now.

I'm looking into other option - one possibility is Adobe Acrobat Capture, which is a much more robust solution. However, I think it's a fairly expensive program (in an case, definitely not free). In the mean time, if anyone has other suggestions... please share!

Dan Chisarick wrote:

I just got a chance to take a look (its been a truly awful week @ work), and it is a thing of beauty. Crisp scans, good color, (an appropriate watermark)... definitely a next best thing (to owning the actual mags).

I was going to scan my Computist collection as PDF files. While I've never used it apparently Adobe has a free plug-in that does OCR of scanned PDF files so you can search the text? Anyone have any experience w/how effective this is?


On Mar 17, 2004, at 3:01 AM, Stephane Racle wrote:


I'm pleased to announce that my web site, the Computer Gaming World (CGW) Museum, is finally on-line! The Museum is dedicated to the preservation and presentation of all CGW items related to the time period covered by the first 100 issues of Computer Gaming World magazine. Currently there is not a whole lot of textual information available, but you will find scans of the covers of most of the first 100 issues, among other things. The goal is, of course, to expand as time allows, and all suggestions/constructive criticism/comments are welcome!

Anyhow, you are all welcome to take a look! I am hoping that this will prove to be a useful resource for the vintage gaming community, as I do not believe that the information provided by the Museum is available elsewhere on the web.

You will find the museum at cgw.vintagegaming.org. Many, many thanks to Freddie Bingham for hosting!

Oh, and never mind the March 20th date on the news page. Amazingly, we're 3 days early... :-)

Stephane


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