[sdiy] From Bernie of Electronotes

[Dave Brown]

Adobe Acrobat will optimize scanned PDFs by correcting the image rotation
and doing OCR.  I use it all the time and it is great.

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Synth-diy [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org] On Behalf Of
> Tom Wiltshire
> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2017 10:00 AM
> To: paula at synth.net
> Cc: Bernard Arthur Hutchins Jr; SYNTH DIY
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] From Bernie of Electronotes
> 
> 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
> >
> >
> > 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