[sdiy] Can anyone OCR the AN23.PDF File Here?

[Donald Tillman]

> On Jul 6, 2017, at 4:24 AM, Rob Kam <robkam at ymail.com> wrote:
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> There are already experts at this sort of project, at Archive.org who have been doing this for a numberof years https://archive.org/details/texts&tab=about

Rob, this is an excellent idea.

Bernie, you're making roughly zero profit on Electronotes right now, correct?  Archive.org could handle all the archiving work and it would be done by professionals and supported.  They would also do the indexing, searching, and distribution in a number of formats.  (You'll likely get the OCR for free.)

Now for profit... As you said, reading pdf's off a screen is sub-optimal, and people pay good money for physical products.  I think my previous suggestion holds; publish a set of physical books of the best articles on various topics from EN.  Maybe add some new commentary.  Use a publishing service like Lulu or Amazon.

You can publish either the original scans (the "flashback edition") or cleaned up and pretty.  For the latter you'll need some assistance to LaTeX up the equations, produce pretty schematics and graphs, editing and page layout, etc.  It's good material and you may want it presented professionally.  Your choice.

Release one book at a time, each will pay you and pay for the next.

Your body of work is awesome, it really ought to be presented and preserved the best way possible, it's more in demand with the analog resurgence, and you should profit from it.

  -- Don
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Donald Tillman, Palo Alto, California
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