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Okay - Rob - I remember your wiki some time back.
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<div>So 5998 pages to go!</div>
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<div>And I do not know why I would want to post on a medium that anyone could change.</div>
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<div>But you are absolutely right that not many folks want to work - 140 characters is the attention span I guess. How many tweets (is that the correct term?) in 6000 pages? Many don't even want to read more than that. Ever since I have been posting new
stuff free, I seldom (never?) get comments/questions. People collect - do not read/study.</div>
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<div>But your link does look very good. </div>
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<div>You have it figured out correctly.</div>
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<div>Best regards -Bernie</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 7, 2017 6:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bernard Arthur Hutchins Jr<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Wiki = a collaboratively edited website which allows users to add, edit or change most content very quickly and easily.
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With the mention of converting Electronotes to wiki format I’ve taken the time to wikify the sample PDF at http://www.sdiy.info/w/Electronotes/AN-23_-_The_CA3080_as_a_Voltage-Controlled_Resistor to show what can be done. This was about two hours’ work. The
images can improved later/by someone else.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">However, going by experience with the SDIY wiki thus far - don’t expect anyone to collaborate on a project like this. It seems mostly people are happy to write
quick answers on email lists and forums but cannot take the time and effort to create content.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Because I enjoy working on the SDIY wiki I’d be happy to add the Musical Engineers Handbook (362 pages) and Builder's Guide and Preferred Circuits Collection
(270 pages) to the SDIY wiki. Although I guess working alone this might take a year. However wikifying 6000 pages is too daunting, unless I was being paid to do it.</span></p>
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this is the way to go in the long run. Both for preservation of a legacy in a format that's less likely to be infested by "bit rot" but also for practical reasons of searchability. To give a practical example of searchability, although not necessarily identical
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formatting, where the text, instead of being confined to lines of a certain length like on paper, it would instead be formatted into paragraph that would flow freely to the size of the user's screen. Especially wiki formatting would, with the use of an extension,
provide formatting for formulae, in the form of a subset of LaTeX format. For example, the definition of the Laplace transform can be written as:</span></p>
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nowhere near enough time to finish all 6000 pages. But through collaboration it might be possible. For example, I might contact Jason Scott and the good volunteers at Archive Team. With enough luck, there might be people, among whom the job of scanning the
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Really makes my point, and I guess I should not rely on volunteers! I don't blame you one bit - just does not work.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">I expect no one else want to try either. If anyone does, don't look at the crib below until after you try. Errors located and circled in red. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black"><a href="http://electronotes.netfirms.com/AN23Rob.PDF" target="_blank" id="m_1998627374052741350LPlnk587417">http://electronotes.netfirms.com/AN23Rob.PDF</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">Please all, let's agree that the OCR issue is bogus as applied here.</span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 6, 2017 1:51 PM<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 6 July 2017, 18:30<br>
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obscure, and about 13 of which I had to look at the original to see what they were supposed to be. (One was hard to detect since it substituted an Rf for an Ri, a disaster). A full proofread/correction would take at least 30 minutes (188 eight-hour days
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To put my two cents in, the synth DIY community should see whether they are able to raise the funds to compensate (against unsold hardcopy,
<span class="m1998627374052741350yiv0105428593spelle">ebooks</span> etc.) for releasing
<span class="m1998627374052741350yiv0105428593spelle">Electronotes</span> under a non-commercial Creative Commons licence
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black"> Bernard Arthur
Hutchins Jr [mailto:<a href="mailto:bah13@cornell.edu" target="_blank">bah13@cornell.edu</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> 06 July 2017 01:42<br>
<b>To:</b> Rob Kam <<a href="mailto:robkam@ymail.com" target="_blank">robkam@ymail.com</a>>;
<a href="mailto:mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca" target="_blank">mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [sdiy] Can anyone OCR the AN23.PDF File Here?</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">But a manual identifications and 5 minutes/page is no good for the small improvement. Still months of 8-hour days to do 6000 pages. My
PDF is still much better already. The equations are still unusable. It makes the same text errors, apparently. Why not just say it just can't do this? Wasn't intended to. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black"> Rob Kam <</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black"><a href="mailto:robkam@ymail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">robkam@ymail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 5, 2017 6:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bernard Arthur Hutchins Jr; </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black"><a href="mailto:mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black"><br>
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At </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black"><a href="http://www.sdiy.info/AN23.rtf" target="_blank" id="m_1998627374052741350yiv0105428593LPlnk309394"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">http://www.sdiy.info/AN23.rtf</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">
this took 10 minutes to OCR with </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black"><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiZhc6ZmPPUAhVG6RQKHRHpA1UQFggoMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abbyy.com%2Fen-gb%2Fsupport%2Ffinereader-12%2F&usg=AFQjCNHLOjsz219pjjTDqDytG2Cpm9N90w" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:#1F497D; text-decoration:none">ABBYY
FineReader 12</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">, first manually identifying areas of text vs. images. Obviously it still needs further corrections.
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