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Re: Apple II Reference Manual Addendum PDF now online

Paul Schlyter wrote:
In article <JP3we.49$aA5.24@tornado.socal.rr.com>, mfrischknecht@san.rr.com says... 



What about OCR'ing the text and keeping the graphic parts at 4 bits that
would reduce the size drasticly.



That will of course provide the best final result, however it also means
a lot more work.  First, the pages should be rescanned at still
higher resolution (OCR software isn't as good as the human eye-brain
combination in reading text available in low resolution). Second, after having scanned + OCR'ed the text, it *will* need manual proofreading 
and correction.  That takes some time, although it is still much faster
than typing it all in by hand - I estimate it to some 5-10 times faster.
Finally, one learns what kind of mistakes one's OCR software often
does and after having OCR'ed some pages one knows better what kind
of "OCR typos" to look out for and correct.

One way could be to share up the work: one person could do the scanning
and post the scanned pages, and someone else could OCR these graphics
files.


This is a _very_ good idea.  People differ in their ability to proofread
by at least an order of magnitude.  Most people are quite tolerant of
misspelled words and misrecognized characters, either because they are
"auto-correcting" them, or because after a few minutes they are simply
scanning and not critically reading the text.


A few years ago I did scan + OCR the manuals for the S-C Assembler;
the results are available at the URL below


And they are a fine job--thank you!

-michael

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