Re: Archiving old magazines on website

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org.is.invalid (Scott Alfter)]

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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.
>|>
>|You end up with *lots* of separate files for the same issue of
>|a magazine. pdf at least allows combining the pages.
>
>Okay, so which format is best for using a search engine with?

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.)

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