RE: xywrite manual

[Gavin Budge gbudge@xxxxxxxx]

The Finereader OCR program from ABBYY software (a Russian firm) is a truly
excellent program - I've used it, for example, to recognise pages from
poorly printed texts produced in 1809, and it has still managed a well-nigh
flawless job. It's only gradually making inroads on the Anglo-American
market, I gather, but seems to be streets ahead of the market leaders. It's
not wildly expensive (c $90) and is available from jungle.com in the UK. I
think it's the only program I've ever had that has never crashed on me (the
only Windows program, anyway).
I could put in all that stuff about having no commercial relationship with
the company, blah blah blah, but I hope you'll take that on trust.

At 06:44 AM 8/14/02 -0700, you wrote:
> Funny you should mention this...I'm in the process of OCRing the Xy3
> manual and I plan on turning it into PDF. You're right Jordan, it's a long
> and tedious job. Made even longer and more tedious by the OCR program I'm
> using (I suddenly can't remember it's name...annoyance has blocked it from
> memory). Anybody have suggestions for a good OCR app?
>
> Brian Henderson
> Print Composition Dept.
> Mitchell Repair Information Co.
> San Diego, CA
> www.mitchell1.com
> brian.henderson@xxxxxxxx
> (858) 391-5000 - x.6533
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Gavin Budge wrote:
>
> > Making a scanned version of the manuals available seems a good idea (and
> > something to which I would be willing to contribute with the Xy3 manual).
> > Would anyone else on the list be interested?
> >
> > At 08:18 AM 8/13/02 -0700, you wrote:
> > >from Morris,
> > >
> > >   Printing the manuals only become viable if there are 50 or more
> persons
> > >interesting in purchasing it. The alternative is to have someone scan it
> > >into the computer and be able to produce a digital copy which can be sent
> > >either as an attachment or be downloaded from a website.
> > >
> If the 3+ manual (which I cite rather than the series of manual booklets
> from 4,
> because of its relative size and thoroughness) could be well scanned and
> turned
> into a .PDF or collection of .PDF files, I think that would be a good
> thing to
> have available. But you'd need to go page by page with an OCR program and
> check
> the output for scan errors, or have a service bureau do it. In short,
> that would
> be a rather large task. I can't do any part of this job myself, but would be
> willing to put in some reasonable contribution towards the cost, as long
> as there
> were enough other "subscribers" so as to make this a viable project.
>
> Jordan