--- In , Roger Malmstein <starwolf@...> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:08:05 -0000, "userbimbob"
> <userbimbob@...> wrote:
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> >
> >> > Marc's a CD guy. I'm still working on reducing that size though.
> >
> >> Well thank god he made it to the 80's it'd be a bitch to get all that on cassette tapes or worse... vinal
> >
> >
> >I'd vote for a GOOD OCR copy of everything on a CD, 30-40mb for a mostly text file is scandalous - there should be a 'quality' way to get an ocr scan from old hardcopy
>
> OCR reading documents are a labourous process. I once started to OCR
> my TNE rulebook. But after spending several hours to correct miss
> spelling like "lDiot" to read 1D10 I gave up. And I used at the time
> the best OCR software available and back then a quite powerful
> computer. The print and the typeface in the TNE rulebook isn't very
> clean and the rasterized sidebar boxes are hard to OCR. It takes less
> time typing them in by hand.
I have to say... (and I'm just doing errata), the shading makes OCRing tables a &#%&^*&%^*& pain!
Once I have all the official errata in and organized, I'll post drafts around. Then we'll start adding any unofficial items that you folks deem needed.