[sdiy] From Bernie of Electronotes

[Tom Wiltshire]

Fair enough. You clearly have had access to much better scanners than me!

Tom.

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On 25 Jun 2017, at 16:21, paula at synth.net wrote:

> Sorry, have to disagree..
> Most scanners have page feeders now and will happily scan 1000+ pages and save to PDF, just by loading the document in and hitting "Scan"
> 
> Yes, OCR would be more onerous, but a simple type index page and linked chapters wouldn't take much effort and would save bucket loads of paper and open new markets for the papers.
> 
> Paula
> 
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> On 2017-06-25 14:39, Tom Wiltshire wrote:
>> On 25 Jun 2017, at 14:28, Michael Zacherl <sdiy-mz01 at blauwurf.info> wrote:
>>> On 25.Jun 2017, at 15:18 , Ben Stuyts <ben at stuyts.nl> wrote:
>>>> Although I already own the complete set of Electronotes (thanks, Bernie!), I'd love to have an Ebook version too. It would make searching so much easier.
>>> wouldn’t that involve lots of OCR-ing of the old issues?
>> It certainly would. A lot. Scanning them all would be a big job, but
>> OCR'ing them all too would be a major task.
>> Until we get robots and AI that can do this sort of stuff for us,
>> there's a lot of information that's just going to stay on paper. But I
>> don't believe that point is that far away.
>> Tom
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