[sdiy] From Bernie of Electronotes

[Mike HEQX]

OCR is a pain, but scanning to PDF would be a worthwhile venture IMHO. 
It's easy enough with a disassembled paper volume.

$50.00 for all that knowledge, totally worth it.



On 6/25/2017 10:18 AM, Pete Hartman wrote:
> Perhaps a more do-able suggestion would be to have someone OCR the 
> engineer's handbook to sell this way.
>
> I think the mass of the other information is worth more than $50.  And 
> to be honest, I haven't been able to afford $373 in one lump either, 
> that's why it's awesome that Bernie is willing to sell in pieces.  I 
> started with the core stuff, added the rest of issues 1 -12 that 
> weren't in the core, and eventually will buy the rest of the paper 
> archives (soon, as I implied earlier, I have projects ongoing now that 
> will easily fund that).
>
> But the engineer's handbook on its own would be a good choice, as it 
> has a complete set of circuits and stands more or less on its own.  
> And it's about the size of a book I'd pay $50 for.
>
> Thanks
>
> Pete
>
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net 
> <mailto:tom at electricdruid.net>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 25 Jun 2017, at 14:28, Michael Zacherl <sdiy-mz01 at blauwurf.info
>     <mailto:sdiy-mz01 at blauwurf.info>> wrote:
>
>     >
>     > On 25.Jun 2017, at 15:18 , Ben Stuyts <ben at stuyts.nl
>     <mailto: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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