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

[Michael E Caloroso]

OCR is only reliable with certain fonts.  When I was job hunting, my
counselor told me to use Times New Roman for my resume because
employers scan resumes through OCR so they have a soft copy on record.

I would gladly pay for complete ElectroNotes in hard copy.

MC

On 7/6/17, Donald Tillman <don at till.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jul 6, 2017, at 4:24 AM, Rob Kam <robkam at ymail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
> --
> Donald Tillman, Palo Alto, California
> don at till.com
> http://www.till.com
>
>
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