The scanner only saves in JPEG or Tiff, so I may after do a=20
postProcessing to save in png.
For the OCR I do not think that I will have the time. Can somebody el=
se=20
do that once
with the JPG files. I checked that the printed result looks ok before=
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starting.

On vendredi, octobre 4, 2002, at 03:12  pm, Ned Konz wrote:

> On Friday 04 October 2002 05:20 am, Stephane Ducasse wrote:
>> Hi archeologist and Smalltalk oldies freaks
>>
>> We with alex started to scan the book "A Taste of Smalltalk"
>> (thanks Ted for the rights to do that).
>> However, it takes me around 3 min per pages, so I would like to
>> know if somebody want to
>> do some postprocessing of the files to see if  we can obtain a pdf=
s
>> and at which quality.
>
> You might want to save the scans as PNG files, since they're line a=
rt.
>
> Though the JPGs look good.
>
> I converted page 17 into a PDF; you can see the result at
> ftp://microship.com/bikenomad/t017.pdf .
>
> Here's what I did:
>
> go to Gimp and crop the JPG
> print PS to a file
> run ps2pdf on that file
>
> Did you want to try to OCR them? That would reduce the size of the
> PDFs but would require lots more manual work to get the fonts right=
,
> etc.
>
> --=20
> Ned Konz
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>
>
>
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