<VV> Scanning the Communique

[Tony Underwood]

At 06:39 AM 12/22/2009, Jay Pitchford wrote:
>I have access to a nice copier/scanner at the office and might be able to
>help scan back issues of the Communique into pdf format. I'll have to check
>to see if scans are charged for (like paper copies) under the copier lease
>agreement.




The trick about scanning Communiques to PDF is more about organizing 
who has what so that everyone else mixed up in all this knows what to 
scan and what not to, since someone else might be duping the same 
issues.    I already posted a list of what I have on hand, including 
issues I've lost or misplaced along the way, to the other people 
included in the mix.


What remains is to organize what who has and then get everyone to 
agree to which blocks of Communiques, Quarterlies, and newsletters 
they can scan/convert.   The end result needs to be searchable, which 
means the text has to be scanned via OCR while the images remain in 
bitmap form.    Not a problem for the majority of scan/ocr software 
these days, and as Tony I. pointed out, if you have Microsoft Office 
on your computer there's already a decent OCR scan program there 
which doesn't do a half-bad job.    There's already been some 
discussion on how to best go about all this... anybody wanting to 
read the discussions so far, ask and someone will forward the CC'ed 
e-mails to you if you're interested in seeing what it's about.




tony..