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 ? > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ 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.
