[Coco] Scanned in manual for OS-9 Assembler

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 30 March 2008, George Ramsower wrote:
> I've never tried that. Paint Shop saved it as a PNG at 83k.
> Firefox displays it just as well as the GIF. I wonder about other browsers.
>George
>http://coco.thetinbox.com/Image3.png
>
And running a 600 (or more, the higher the better) dpi scan through GOCR or a 
similar OCR system, then fixing its mistakes, will often get you a 3 to 4 
kilobyte text file.  Been there, done that, slow though.

>From: "Diego Barizo"
>
>> Saving it as an optimized PNG, went down to 85 Kb
>>
>> Diego
>>
>> George Ramsower wrote:
>>> When I scan documents, I scan at 300 DPI, grey scale, then in Paint Shop,
>>> I convert it to two color and save it as a GIF.
>>> An 8.5 X 11 page will save at about 120k file size.
>>>
>>> This one came out at 116K
>>>
>>> Example: http://coco.thetinbox.com/Image3.gif
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Devries"
>>>
>>>> Hi, Fedor,
>>>>
>>>> I always scan in Black & White, *unless* the document has colours which
>>>> do not scan properly that way. If necessary, I scan in either colour or
>>>> grayscale, but for just straight text docs, b&w works best.
>>>>
>>>> I think using grayscale does increase the file size significantly.
>>>>
>>>> I have no idea whether Acrobat 6 (which I use) does a better job of
>>>> compression than version 4, or whether the output of the scanner has
>>>> some bearing on that.
>>>>
>>>> What I'll do is print one of those docs from your PDF files, and then
>>>> re-scan that doc, and see if I end up with a significantly smaller doc.
>>>> I'll let you know the result.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>>>>
>>>> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
>>>> the capacity to be his spokesman,
>>>> so that I know how to help the weary.
>>>>
>>>> website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
>>>> my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fedor Steeman"
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Bob,
>>>>>
>>>>> If you have tips on how I can make my scans more compact, I am
>>>>> interested to
>>>>> hear about them.
>>>>>
>>>>> I scan using a HP OfficeJet 6310 at 300 dpi grayscale. I also use
>>>>> Acrobat
>>>>> 4.0.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Fedor
>>>>>
>>>>> On 29/03/2008, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Fedor,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can I ask why these files are so large? What DPI are you scanning? I
>>>>>> have
>>>>>> docs here that I scanned which have many more pages and are way
>>>>>> smaller. I
>>>>>> scan at 300DPI, and that produces very readable documents. I'm using
>>>>>> Adobe
>>>>>> Acrobat 6 to scan and make the PDF files, using a CanoScan 5200F
>>>>>> scanner.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
>>>>>> the capacity to be his spokesman,
>>>>>> so that I know how to help the weary.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
>>>>>> my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/
>>
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