[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Fw: Copyright

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 09 July 2005 13:25, Michael Wayne Harwood wrote:
>James,
>
>Thanks for the questions - I am going to have to fill the FAQ on the
>project website out a lot more!!
>
>> Is that single or dual layer DVDs?  (I suppose it depends on the
>> cost of
>
>the disks when you get it all together)
>
>I have chosen single layer.  Dual layer recordable DVDs cost around
> $4 to $5 each, while single layer are less than $1 (about $.70). 
> The issue of cost has been in the threads a lot lately, so I assume
> that more than a few people are concerned about the cost.  Would
> you rather the cost include (estimated) $3.50 for 8 single layer
> DVDs or $32 for 4 dual-layer DVDs??  It's makes the product go from
> a cost of $50 to $82.
>
>This brings up the subject of production quality in general.  Is it
> more important to have the product cost less at the expense of
> "nice to have features"??
>
>> What DPI are you scanning at (I found 300 was manditory for
>> everything
>
>to be readable).
>
>300ppi 24bit color
>
I've found that when using GOCR, the OCR error rates fall like a rock 
if the dpi is ran on up to 1200.  But that will quickly fill a hard 
drive of normal size.  That was also a 3 or 4 year ago experiment, 
GOCR may have improved some by now.

>> Will that include the Books too?  (Book of Adventures 1, 2, 3,
>> simulations, etc...)
>
>Unfortunately this is out of scope for this project.  Lonnie said he
> would be willing to discuss licensing those works after this
> project is finished, but that he wanted to see how the Rainbow on
> Disc project turned out before making that decision.
>
>> $50 is kinda the most I'd be willing to spend... possibly $60 with
>> the
>
>books.  I think you'll find the audience limited to the diehard coco
>fans at that price.
>
>I would really like the cost to be as low as possible.  The cost is
> going to be mostly dependant on production costs - I make an
> estimate of $50 to $70 to make sure and cover all the bases...I am
> sure there's something I have forgotten to include and would hate
> to say $50 and then realize I am going to have to eat $5 per
> collection because I missed something obvious.
>
>> Like I mentioned to someone else, djvu files are just over 1/10th
>> the
>
>size of pdf files.  The only reason the format didn't catch on
> earlier is the patent holder wanted absurd license fees.  That has
> changed and the format is now being adopted by many libraries and
> online archives.
>
>>  Plus there are many open source viewers and utilities.
>> See info here:
>> http://www.djvuzone.org/
>
>I will look more closely at DjVU.  At this point I am not 100% wed
> to .pdf if there is a better cross platform solution, but my
> understanding has been that DjVU files lack many of the features
> that .pdfs have such as embedded links, bookmarks, etc.  The
> viewers seem to be mostly browser based and I have not had the
> extensive experience I have had with .pdf to be able to compare
> apples with apples.
>
>Anyone have anything to add on this?  Would DjVU be the better
> choice overall and support all of the following features:
>
> - Freely available viewers for Windows, Unix, and OSX
> - Embedded document linking
> - Bookmarks
> - Image zoom
>
>> Frankly, a search over 8 disks isn't very practical for me and I
>> really
>
>don't want that much old stuff taking up space on my hard drive.  I
>wouldn't mind a more limited database search based on
>
>> keywords on my hard drive.  Possibly classify articles by which
>> have
>
>programs or not, which programs are games, business, ads, Basic,
>assembly, hardware or whatever.  I often remember an article and
> want
>
>The plan is to provide an index in both .pdf and full text formats. 
> Each disc would also have an index of what is on the DVD itself
> that has live links to articles on the disc - click on a link and
> it would open up the correct .pdf and go to the correct page.
>
>We are also going to do what I have been calling a "one pass" OCR
> that will be a quick and dirty OCR of all the issues.  These will
> be provided in text only format.  I have been kicking around
> letting Acrobat do it's own OCR as well so that there would be a
> way to search the .pdf documents, but the OCR would be limited to
> what it found on it's first pass without any post production
> corrections.
>
>Regards,
>Michael Harwood
>
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