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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
When was the last time you got an actual printed manual with software, for example? And a fair number of computer texts are coming with CD ROMs which may include the text of the book
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Manuals never, and some of the texts are pdf, true. But the ones I really care about are not available, even the dragon book is only available via pirates.
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Got spare time? I admire your impulse, but I suspect the time editing and proofing the OCRed scans may prove prohibitive.
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I have the time and the inclination. I've dumped 50kg of music CDs after spending a year ripping to FLAC and scanning the artwork, now it's time to start on the 20kg of irreplaceable magazines. Even if all I manage is high-quality jpgs I suspect that will be enough, most of them are fairly art-heavy. I would like the text scanned but I fear that text-over-art does not OCR well. Even if it takes years in my spare time, I have the years...