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.