Chuck, Really ? Which little ham company is that ?
Bill....WB6BNQ 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 -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
