[Coco] List of copied manuals ready to be scanned

[Fedor Steeman]

Hi Andrew,

On 11/04/2008, Andrew <keeper63 at cox.net> wrote:
>
>
> Fedor, if you have something unique like that, don't destroy it physically
> - destroy it digitally! In other words, scan, cut, paste, stitch, etc in
> Photochop (or Gimp, or whatever your preference is) - A5 is a weird size (do
> they they even make scanners for that?).
>
> If you are going to have to go through a lot of trouble for a scan, you
> might as well do it on the computer instead of physically. Yes, this will be
> a very painful thing to go through, and it won't be exact (impossible to get
> the alignment perfect, without using some kind of external frame).
>

The point of my recent scanning initiative is that I have a lot of *copies*
of manuals that I basically just can put on my new scanner which has a
document feeder and let it roll, while I am about doing other stuff.
Unfortunately, I really don't have that much time to spent on this.

With regards to the newsletter (Info CoCoNut):  In Europe at least, A5 is a
pretty normal size. The newsletter was printed on a stack of A4 sheets
folded over the middle. So I would only have to remove the staples , fold
the stack out and put it on my document feeder. The resulting scan would
have to be rotated, copied twice, where I would crop one version to the left
and the other to the right. The resulting two files would have to be
interleaved, which is the most labour-intensive, especially since Acrobat
strangely enough does not support this. Tips anyone?

Anyways, for those interested, I added a little info and cover scan of the
newsletter on the CoCo wiki:

http://www.coco25.com/wiki/index.php/Info_CoCoNut

Cheers,
Fedor