There was a lot of discussion about whether the company actually bought the rights and/or whether the seller, in fact, owned the rights, , or just some filing cabinets of hard copy manuals.
FWIW, -John ================ > Press Release > > October 2008 > > Data Professionals of Pleasanton California has purchased the Copyrights > and existing inventory of all legacy Heathkit > product documentation from Heath Company of Benton Harbor Michigan for an > undisclosed amount. The new company will make > copies of the original legacy manuals available to the marketplace via its > web site and through eBay and PayPal. > > -Chuck Harris > > WB6BNQ wrote: >> 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. > > _______________________________________________ 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.
