Re: Books online...

[Chris Morse <chris@cosmicwolf.com>]

On 27 Jul 2003 08:02:11 GMT, mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:

>I guess that we can expect to see many more "camera
>captures" of old printed material.  It would be nice to have
>a simple way of processing it into captured text (plus the
>occasional graphic).
>
>Ah, well--I can dream...   ;-)
>
>-michael

True.. Though I would like to see flatbed scans rather than camera
captures.  I did a camera capture, but it really felt like it was a
"poor mans scanner" even though the price of the camera was equivelant
to 25 Epson Perfection 1250 scanners.  That's what I recently got, and
I'm scanning some of the manuals I have now.

At 300 dpi and JPG compression, the images are still about 1.1MB for
each page.  The resolution is great, but that's still a lot of space.
I'll keep the high-res scans but I'll probably resize them all to the
smallest legible resolution (and use GIF , which will save a lot of
space on top of that too.)   As for OCR, that will take even more time
than the scanning, so I think it'll not be done nearly as often.  It
will be a labor of love to both OCR it and then proof-read it for
mistakes, etc.

I've scanned the Apple II Super Serial Card Manual.  Next I am
scanning my complete collection of Ren & Stimpy comics (34 issues.)
Then I will probably scan some of my Apple II library books:

 - ProDOS 8 Technical Reference [Apple]
 - Programming The 6502 [Sybex]
 - 6502 Applications [Sybex]
 - Apple II Basic Programming Reference Manual [Apple]
 - Basic Programming With ProDOS [Apple]
 - Apple II Assembly Language Excercises [Wiley]
 - Assembly Cookbook For The Apple II/IIe [Lancaster, SAMS]
 - Apple Machine Language [Inman, Reston]
 - Apple Graphics & Arcade Game Design [Stanton]
 - Apple II Assembly Language [Marvin L. De Jong]
 - Apple Assembly Language [W. Douglas Maurer]
 - Assembly Language Programming For The Apple II [Mottola]
 - Apple II Users Guide For The Apple II+/IIe, 3rd Edition
 - Assembly Language For The Applesoft Programmer [Finley/Myers]
 - 6502 Software Design [Scanlon]
 - Beneath Apple DOS / Beneath Apple ProDOS / Bag Of Tricks
 - Apple IIc Technical Reference Manual [Apple]
 - Apple IIc Technical Reference Manual, 2nd Edition [Apple]
 - 6502 Assembly Language Programming, 2nd Edition [Leventhal]
 - 6502 Assembly Language Subroutines [Leventhal]
 - Nibble Express, Volumes 1 through 10
 - Apple Pascal 1.2 [full documentation]
 - other stuff I haven't dug out from boxes yet..

What I'm trying to find is a copy of the latest Merlin Assembler
documentation.  On the Asimov FTP they have a disk with the docs, but
strangely it's missing a chapter (I think it's chapter 8.)  Also, a
book called "6502 Software Gourmet Guide & Cookbook" by Robert
Findley.

// CHRIS