Re: Archiving old magazines on website

[Charles Richmond <richchas@comcast.net>]

Scott Alfter wrote:
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> In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403071712210.20514-100000@lab.oregonvos.net>,
> Matthew Montchalin  <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net> wrote:
> >On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Charles Richmond wrote:
> >|> I suggest GIF. It's an old format, and I know there are readers for
> >|> the CoCo 3 and C=64/128, probably also Apple.
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> >|You end up with *lots* of separate files for the same issue of
> >|a magazine. pdf at least allows combining the pages.
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> >Okay, so which format is best for using a search engine with?
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> If you want it to be indexed by Google and friends, it needs to be either
> well-structured HTML or plaintext.  Getting to those from scans, though,
> means either OCRing and lots of proofreading.  On the other hand, you would
> have much smaller files that could easily be handled by vintage hardware.
> (Writing something for an Apple II (or whatever) to parse and display just
> enough HTML to read these files wouldn't need to be too tricky; it doesn't
> need to have all of the functionality of your average web browser to be
> useful.)
> 
And I'll say it again...it sounds like a *separate* project.
The hardest part of the ASCII project is OCR'ing the articles.

The hardest part of the PDF project is just scanning in the
magazine pages...IMHO.

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