[time-nuts] 3586A HQ PDF Manual available -optimization-

WB6BNQ wb6bnq at cox.net
Fri Dec 10 23:44:14 UTC 2010


Chuck,

Really ?  Which little ham company is that ?

Bill....WB6BNQ

Chuck Harris wrote:

> You obviously haven't come across all of the Adobe acrobat OCR'd manuals
> on logsa.  They are amazingly unusable.  The OCR program gets way off
> kilter, and makes a mess of large sections of the manuals... and unfortunately,
> nobody has the resources to proofread the results.
>
> Don't waste your time on the Heathkit manual.  The license to reproduce the
> manuals was bought up by some little ham company, and they are very inclined
> to chase down any heathkit manuals on the internet, and serve the hosting site
> with a take down notice.  The only thing you are "allowed" to put on the net is the
> schematic.
>
> -Chuck Harris
>
> Chris Albertson wrote:
> > The best thing you can do after you scan a manual is run it through OCR.
> > If you have Acrobat then you have one of the best OCR systems around.
> > This dramatically improves the readabilty and crispness of the text and
> > at the same time makes the document much smaller and also it makes
> > it searchable.     It does require a bit of time because you have to check
> > the quality of the OCR.  But it mostly works well.  I'm working on a Heatkit
> > manual I have but is not yet available on-line.  It will be OCR'd.
> >
> >
>
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