<VV> Who will do it? :)

[bernievogler at comcast.net]

I was just reading about an Adobe function. I do not know if it would help this process. 
http://blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/2005/10/batch_ocr_using_1.html#more 

It sounds easier, but I don't have the experience to judge. 

Bernie Vogler, '66 Corsa Conv. 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Blackwell" <bryan at skiblack.com> 
To: "Bruce Schug" <bwschug at att.net> 
Cc: "VirtualVairs" <VirtualVairs at corvair.org> 
Sent: Sunday, December 6, 2009 4:53:00 AM GMT +10:00 Canberra / Melbourne / Sydney 
Subject: Re: <VV> Who will do it? :) 

Regarding format - it depends a little on the intent. PDFs are great 
if the goal is to replicate the "feel" of the original. However, 
there are two ways I can see to do that. 

First - the hard way - would be to OCR all the text, scan the images, 
then lay out the magazines as they were. This would allow both for 
searching and browsing. 

Second would be to image scan them one page per image and put all the 
images into a PDF, one per issue. While they would look just like the 
originals, you'd need a separate reference to find things. 

The third way to capture them wouldn't look much like the original 
magazines, but would offer the most utility to someone looking for 
something with no reference. That would be to OCR scan the text, 
image scan the pictures, then load each issue into a Wiki, perhaps 
organized by issue. Problem is you can't just print out a copy that 
looks like the original, but it would be fully searchable, so if you 
want to find all the references to Smitty, it would be easy. Another 
advantage to a Wiki is that many people can edit, so other folks could 
add comments at the bottom, make corrections, etc. This is what I was 
suggesting. 

--Bryan 

On Dec 5, 2009, at 7:14 AM, Bruce Schug wrote: 

> I'll scan some of the CORSA publications. As I mentioned, I have all 
> of them except for the first one after the Preliminaries. I can go 
> them in any format but suggest PDF's as probably the one to use. 

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