[Coco] Re: Update and Call for Issues

[Richard E. Crislip]

Hello Michael

You da man! If I haven't said it before, I'll say it now, I want one! 

Cheers

On 05/05/2006, Michael Wayne Harwood wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> It looks like we have the "acquiring images" and "clean images" portion
> hammered out.  At this point the project has access to images of the
> entire Rainbow run minus three issues.  This means that the only
> scanning that needs to be done would be if someone would scan the first
> four months of 1993 (January 1993, Feb. 1993, March 1993, and April
> 1993).  You could also conmtact me to get my address and send them to
> me for scanning with my promise that I will not shred them, cut them
> up, etc and will return them as quickly as possible.
>
> With the developments that have occurred in the last month or so I
> think we will have this done by the next Rainbow Fest, but hopefully
> sooner.
>
> I am going revise the list of Rainbow on Tape / Disk files I have and I
> am hoping to fill that roster as well.
>
> It's looking like the final product will be two 4.7gb DVD-R's
> containing the following:
>
>  - .djvu files of the magazines with OCR run on them
>  - .djvu files containing the index of the entire collection derived
>  from the official indexes that were published in the magazine
>  - As many Rainbow on Disk / Tape files as I can get my hands on
>  - A javascript based search engine that will search all text of any
>  .djvu on the disc
>  - Text files of all the OCR'd text
>
> After this is completed there is also the possibility of creating a
> second version of the set that conatains .pdf files, but for now the
> focus is on getting the .djvu version out.
>
>
> Regards,
> Michael Harwood
>
>
Regards
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