Re: The Apple II Redbook Manual Online

[Ralf Quint <ralf_quint@hotmail.com>]

On Mon, 05 Mar 2001 22:03:12 -0800, Ralf Quint
<ralf_quint@hotmail.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 06 Mar 2001 04:24:27 GMT, "Simon Biber"
><simon@basilisk2.cjb.net> wrote:
>
>>I'd really appreciate someone running a good OCR program over them. The
>>quality is plenty good enough for OCR but you might need to rotate some of
>Well, i got the single jpg's already and they are actually pretty bad
>for OCR, specially those pages with the dot matrix printouts, but i
>will give it a try as time permits.
>>the pictures first to correct the tilt (unless Omnipage detects and fixes
>That is the easiest task... ;-)))
>>this automatically). If you could release the results as a DOC or RTF as
>>well as PDF that would be good as it allows further
>>modifications/corrections by a third party.
>>
>First things first, let me see how much work it is too OCR the stuff,
>after some other projects, it seems to be not THAT easy,  but at least
>i am not in a rush.....
>>You can download the whole lot here:
>>ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/incoming/A2.REDBOOK.zip
>>
>Thanks, i will pull it tonight through the DSL here at work...
>>It's a 44,109,341 byte zip file which unzips to 44,083,351 bytes of JPEGs.
>>The JPEGs didn't compress at all.
>>
>JPGS are already compressed, that makes them so popular ;-))
>
>Ralf
>
Well, i got the ZIP file and started to OCR the first couple of pages.
Those were fairly easy,  but i ran into one "dilemma":
The original document contains a myriad of typing errors, both
OmniPage and Word are complaining a lot ;-)
The question is now: Should i leave these mistakes as they are or
should they be corrected?
This refers to obvious typesetting errors (the original author didn't
seem to have access to a spell checker, "Interger" is a fairly common
word for example, not to contents related mistakes.

Please let me know what you think, before i invest too much time in
correcting these typos (even though the programs spell checker is
doing most of the work, but they all need to be manually confirmed, as
it's partially pretty "tech speech"...

Ralf