[Coco] Coco archive dump?

[Bill Pierce]

Mathieu, that's the case with most of the PDFs. The problem is, you can't reduce them too much without losing quality. If the originals were still around, then modern, space saving scans could be made, but many are hard to find now. I know there are methods for making some of them smaller, but still it would be a HUGE task.
Take for example the more recent scans done of the Rainbow... they are nice, clear, and supposedly, "searchable". But just copy & paste some text from them and you'll find 20%-30% garbage. This mean any text search is gonna miss 20%-30% of the text in the search. No actual spell-checked OCR. The remakes Aaron Wolfe has on his site (from some of the original scanned tiffs), are much better for copy/paste of listings.
I've seen little 5-6 page cart manuals be at 40-50meg and that's ridiculous.

 

 

Bill Pierce
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