Re: Great news from Apple Computer themselves regarding manuals

[dcross1@nospam.home.com (David Cross)]

In article <363AA8D7.3A0AB89B@swbell.net>, rubywand@swbell.net says...
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>Terry Allen writes ...

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>> All manuals must be reproduced word for word includiing legal statements
>> etc..., along with images used within the manuals, so if you have the
>> equipment to OCR any Apple II manuals from Apple Computer & reproduce the
>> images, then format them into HTML, please do so, then we can get them
>> online at the Apple II site.
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>     This a quite a nice breakthrough!
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>     Regarding OCR, your best bet is, probably, to go with plain scanned
>images-- i.e. pictures of the pages. OCR is a very time-consuming way to
>archive text when a variety of font sizes and styles are employed.
>Besides, pics will include any diagrams and charts on a page.

A further suggestion - OCR'ing into Adobe Acrobat format (*.PDF) for those who 
want to use the reader would be nice as well.