Re: The Apple II Redbook Manual Online

["Simon Biber" <simon@basilisk2.cjb.net>]

I'd really appreciate someone running a good OCR program over them. The
quality is plenty good enough for OCR but you might need to rotate some of
the pictures first to correct the tilt (unless Omnipage detects and fixes
this automatically). If you could release the results as a DOC or RTF as
well as PDF that would be good as it allows further
modifications/corrections by a third party.

You can download the whole lot here:
ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/incoming/A2.REDBOOK.zip

It's a 44,109,341 byte zip file which unzips to 44,083,351 bytes of JPEGs.
The JPEGs didn't compress at all.

Simon.

"Ralf Quint" <ralf_quint@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On 05 Mar 2001 20:25:34 GMT, cturley2@aol.com (Cturley2) wrote:
>
> >Patrick Schaefer  replied asking:
> >
> ><<Does anybody own an Adobe Acrobat license? A .pdf file will be much
easier to
> >handle than this bulk of jpegs.>>
> >
> >Yes I do have the full Adobe Acrobat v4.0 application for the Mac PPC.
But,
> >when I tried making it in that pdf file format it was actually much, much
> >larger than the zip archive - so, I deleted it as such.   I don't have
the time
> >or motivation now to do such a thing again or upload it online either.
> >
> >Perhaps somebody else with the full Adobe Acrobat
> >application for the Mac or PC platform can take on such a conversion to
pdf
> >file project with it.
> >
> Well, trying to make a .PDF out of the .JPGs is not a good idea, as
> you just embed the graphics into the .PDF skeleton. The only thing
> that would make sense (if the JPGs are of decent quality) to run an
> OCR program (like OmiPage) over it and extract the plain text parts
> out of it. This way you would be able to get a Word document (or any
> other word processor/DTP package) with graphics, which would result in
> a much smaller .PFD file.
>
> If you can give me the exact URL to download the .JPGs, i can give it
> a shot, to see if it is feasible....
>
> Ralf
>