[Coco] Rainbow Index OCR

[Luis Fernández]

Stephen

I did a quick OCR with AABBYY Read Right Pro V.8
and put it here,  8mb only Beta for now
ftp://ftp.maltedmedia.com/coco/MAGAZINES/Rainbow/Rainbow-index%20OCR%20BETA.pdf

lack tweak, is that it is not ideal
I will take the yellow and errors just to have it, is it takes what you ask, when I can see it will try to

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Excuse my English, I use google translator, my language is Spanish, I'm Spanish but I live in Venezuela
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> From: SFischer1 at Mindspring.com
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:10:48 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Rainbow Index OCR
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for providing an alternate download for this file so that ... is not 
> overloaded again.
> 
> I think that after another ~ 3 hours looking for July 1992 and failing 
> still, (Not included in the ~ 20 hours on the real project) I will build and 
> make available my work so far in addition to the OCR of your file (~ 14 MB).
> 
> Your file appears to be the best source for July 1992 I have found so it 
> will be extracted and inserted into the one I am building. (OCR will be 
> poor)
> 
> It's only two pages with the first one needing to be cropped.
> 
> I would scan at 1200 DPI 8 BIT Gray Scale, save to .tif (131 MB per page).
> 
> Edit the first page to crop to only the index and resave as .tif.
> 
> The import into Adobe Acrobat 9 and do the OCR using Clear Scan and High (72 
> DPI) settings.
> 
> The resulting file will be ~ 200 KB.
> 
> The fonts used in the 1990, 1991 and 1992 indexes are very small.
> 
> TIA to anyone if they can do the July 1992 work.
> 
> mailto:a_nani_mouse at mindspring.com
> 
> SHF
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John W. Linville" <linville at tuxdriver.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 7:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Rainbow Index OCR
> 
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 09:08:40PM -0700, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> EVERYONE !
> >>
> >> Please do not download this file, it is 168 MB and will put a huge
> >> strain on ...
> >>
> >> That file can be searched by humans only using their eyes.
> >
> > It is still available from here:
> >
> > http://www.tuxdriver.com/download/rainbow-index.pdf
> >
> > Hth...
> >
> > -- 
> > John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you
> > linville at tuxdriver.com might be all we have.  Be ready.
> >
> 
> 
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