30 Nov
2015
30 Nov
'15
9:06 a.m.
On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 08:55:23PM -0800, Paul McJones wrote:
Thanks very much for making the original and the
OCR-enhanced versions
of Doug’s scan of the “UnixEditionZero” document available
on tuhs.org. I notice that even with Nelson’s enhanced version,
the file size is still large for a scanned text document, apparently
because it was originally scanned in RGB mode, 24 bits/pixel. The
attached version is 2.5MB, and to my eye is identical looks identical
to UnixEditionZero-OCR.pdf.
Paul, I've added your version into the same directory. Thanks!
Warren
1 Dec
1 Dec
9:48 p.m.
New subject: Scan of "Edition 0" manual
Anyone have any thoughts on a collaborative effort to hand-correct it
from the OCR output into a readable format?
10:29 p.m.
New subject: Scan of "Edition 0" manual
On Tue, 1 Dec 2015, Random832 wrote:
Anyone have any thoughts on a collaborative effort to
hand-correct it
from the OCR output into a readable format?
Can someone point me to the URL for it, please? I could be interested, as
I'm a pedantic bugger.
And what format would you suggest? I can do -ms and RTF, but I'm not
familiar with LaTex etc.
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2 Dec
2 Dec
12:44 a.m.
New subject: Scan of "Edition 0" manual
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015, at 17:29, Dave Horsfall wrote:
Can someone point me to the URL for it, please? I
could be
interested, as I'm a pedantic bugger.
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/McIlroy_v0/
The 2.5MB version is fine. I also went ahead and created a github
repository with what I have so far (a couple pages cleaned up, first
page has justification and hyphenation reapplied, and the rest just has
a few global search fixes and some things I spotted running it through
spell before I gave up on that approach).
https://github.com/Random832/McIlroy_v0/
And what format would you suggest? I can do -ms and
RTF, but I'm not
familiar with LaTex etc.
Well, just fixing up the text would be a start, maybe along with
some notation of what's underlined, subscripts, etc, so we can come
back to it.
It'd be period-appropriate to use roff, which might well be what he
originally wrote it in... or nroff might be more accessible for
modern users.
5:21 p.m.
New subject: Scan of "Edition 0" manual
On Dec 1, 2015 7:44 PM, "Random832" <random832(a)fastmail.us> wrote:
> It'd be period-appropriate to use roff, which might well be what he
> originally wrote it in... or nroff might be more accessible for
> modern users.
Planning on making a man page out of it?
I would assume you'd want a format you could overlay an image of each page
on as the typeface and whatnot are cool to see.
6:32 p.m.
New subject: Scan of "Edition 0" manual
On 2015-12-02, shawn wilson wrote:
I would assume you'd want a format you could
overlay an image of each page
on as the typeface and whatnot are cool to see.
One thing that might be worth doing is seeing if we can "perfectly"
replicate the output and actually use it instead of the OCR
results as the invisible text layer of the PDF.
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