[Simh] scandocs.trailing-edge.com

[Dave]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com 
> [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Peter Svensson
> Sent: 30 January 2011 08:19
> To: Al Kossow
> Cc: simh at trailing-edge.com
> Subject: Re: [Simh] scandocs.trailing-edge.com
> 
> 
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, Al Kossow wrote:
> 
> > > Sorry to butt in, but how did you OCR those?
> > 
> > Acrobat 9 Pro, which is what I've used on all of the bitsavers docs 
> > that have been OCRed, which is quite a few now.
> 
> Abbyy FineReader also does a quite good job of OCR:ing old 
> manuals. I have 
> run through old DEC and DG manuals with good results.

The "pro" version is much better than the free version but it's a lot of
work. However it can learn so if you get mistranslates because of a worn
printer it will learn... 

> 
> Peter
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