[Simh] OSs with accessible documentation

[Tom Morris]

I actually started to put together a toolchain to OCR the bitsavers
documentation a few days ago.  I'm not sure why Kevin mentioned MUMPS, but
since MUMPS-11, the precursor to DSM-11 and VAX-11 DSM, was my first
introduction to DEC kit, I was using the PDP-15 MUMPS manual as my test
subject.

I've got a workable, but not optimal tool chain that will produce PDFs with
both page scanned images and embedded OCR'd text.  Due to the nature of
OCR, it'll be more helpful for search-ability than accessibility, but it
will benefit both. The main problem right now is the size of the resulting
PDFs.  The tiny bitonal G4 fax encoded page images get blown up to
ginormous proportions and I haven't found the right magic sequence to get
the pdfimages CCITT encoded files wrapped into a TIFF file (or multiple
files).

Tom

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Zachary Kline <zkline at speedpost.net> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> So the recent RSTS/E discussion has got me wondering what OS’s I might be
> able to run under SIMH with readable documentation. As a totally blind
> enthusiast I can’t really use the Bitsavers collection without manually
> running OCR on the PDFs, a tedious and error-prone process.
> I’m aware VMS is recent enough to have a lot of its documentation
> available in an electronic format, but I’m curious if there’s anything else
> out there.
> I’ve recently downloaded several .tap files for RSTS and Tops-20, for
> instance, but have been running into trouble when booting them.
> I guess I’m just curious how a lot of these systems were installed.
>
> Has any work been done on retyping some of the documentation?
> Thanks much,
> Zack.
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