Re: xywrite manual

[Gavin Budge gbudge@xxxxxxxx]

I agree it would be a substantial task, but not unmanageable - the
Finereader OCR program which I use has a high degree of accuracy, and it
can also produce PDF files. I don't think it is something I could do
immediately, but maybe in the next six months... of course, if someone else
was prepared to do some of the work, it might get done sooner.
I wouldn't want any contributions to costs, but what would be useful would
be if someone was prepared to host the file on their website.


At 11:01 AM 8/13/02 -0800, you wrote:
> 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