Paul,

 > I have access to a black and white scanner that can do it pretty

quick,

 > however you would have to send them to me. Are they loose leaf --

or

bound

 > booklet form?
 >
 > Bill Schertz
 > KIS Cruiser #4045

 They are loose leaf. Can you also do the conversion from win2pdf?
 http://www.win2pdf.com/

 Do you have a DSL?


 Paul Lamar

They scan into a multipage TIF file, and then are exported as a .pdf

file.

I

don't have DSL, and have not checked what win2pdf does. maybe later.

Bill Schertz
KIS Cruiser #4045

OK. Well that is all we need. If you get to pdf you don't need win2pdf.
the problem will be when you start to email a 5 or 10 meg
file without dsl.

Paul Lamar

Mark Wrathall wrote:
I thought all scanners ship with an OCR (object/ character recognition?)
program these days. Publishing scanned written material as multi page Tifs
embedded in a .PDF file is not an band-width efficient way of distributing
info. Although a bit more work, OCR'ing the text and converting the

figures

to GIF (if B&W) will give much more compact documents which are much

higher

quality for reading and printing. The OCR program that came on our work
scanner is very good.

The best way would be HTML with linked figures, and publish them as
websites, but who has time? Unless everyone volunteers to do one each (I'd
be happy to do one.)

That is a lot of work Mark. Take your typical tech paper. There are three or
more gifs on each page not to mention all the embedded formula which
won't OCR properly.

Paul Lamar

Mark wrote:
Good point about the formulas. Who knows what an OCR would end up with.

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