Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

[CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com>]

Paul Schlyter wrote:
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> DON'T DO THAT ANYMORE!!!  Instead use a scanner + OCR software.  Yes,
> the OCR software has its flaws, and you'll often have to proofread
> what the OCR software produced.  But in my own experience, OCR'ing
> printed pages and reformatting + proofreading them afterwards is some
> 4-5 times faster than typing in all of it by hand. I've done a lot of
> both!  For instance I scanned all of the manuals for various versions
> of the S-C Assembler and posted them on one of my websites (after
> having gotten permission by the original author, Bob Sander-Cederlof
> of course).  Before I got a scanner with OCR software, I did a lot of
> hand typing, therefore the scanner+OCR was a pretty big relief.

A lot of stuff is available scanned,  but locked up in PDF files
etc.  It would be useful to have a means of extracting that scan
and passing it on to OCR software.  

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