Re: Apple IIe Parallel card manual

[quadrajet1@aol.com (Quadrajet1)]

>I think you're thinking of Adobe Distiller.
>
>In my experience, it reduces the size of a .pdf considerably, but nowhere
>near as much as converting raw page images into text with an OCR program.
>Of course, if the document is a mixture of text and illustrations, then some
>clever OCR is required to preserve the original appearance.
>
>OCR can typically reduce the document size by a factor of ten or more
>(as well as recreating a clean original).
>
>-michael

  So far it looks like the OCR software I bought will work just fine.
Scansoft's Textbridge Pro Millenium $2, new still sealed at a thrift store. 
Bad thing is, I have to use my PeeCee.

  Scanned a couple of pages of the Parallel card manual, and with a small bit
of tweaking, it turned out great. Will scan the whole manual this weekend, and
turn it into a Word document, or save it as a PDF at that point.

Raymond