Re: S.A.M. PDF

[bill_gates@microsoft.com (Simon Williams)]

Wayne Stewart <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote:

> Simon Williams wrote:
> 
> > Thanks Wayne, that's a hundred times better than the handbound
> > third-generation photocopied mess I've been working from ;-)
> > 
> > Just curious how you generated the pdf file... I can't open it in older
> > versions of Acrobat, but I don't think that's necessarily unusual.
> 
> I'm using Acrobat 5 and I wondered if there might be some that had
> difficulty but I figured with the reader a free download that that
> wouldn't be too much of a problem.

Not a big problem... I just downloaded it onto one of my 68K beasts and
couldn't open it with Acrobat 2.x
> 
> I usually scan the manual into Photoshop and if need be adjust the
> curves, contrast or brightness and save it. I usually do that on a
> second computer while I'm doing something else on my main one. Then
> I'll OCR it. Later I correct the text and import any graphics which
> my OCR program doesn't handle. I use OSX now so I then save that page
> as a PDF. Then I use acrobat 5 to put the pages together int one file.
> 
> Wayne

What are you using to OCR? I haven't found anything for Macintosh that
isn't outrageously expensive... been wanting to scan a few manuals
myself, but the reward doesn't quite justify the expense in software ;-)

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