Re: Stuff from house cleaning
- From: Robert Englebretson <renglebr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:17:57 -0700 (PDT)
Dear Catherine and list,
This kind of thing is not only possible, but extremely easy. The best way
to do this would be to create an image-based PDF--something which is simple
to
do if you have a scanner and the full version of Adobe Acrobat, and even
most high-end photocopy machines can do this automatically these days. That
will preserve the appearance of the printed page exactly as it is (fonts,
layout, etc). Then anyone who wants a copy of the manual can print it out
on an inkjet or laser printer and read it with the Optacon as intended. Or,
if you just want the text without the layout and fonts (i.e. to read for
informational purposes), you can run OCR on the PDF image file yourself
using Kurzweil or OpenBook.
If no one else wishes to do this, and if Jim hasn't sent the manuals away
yet, I'd be glad to take this on. I could put it through our bulk scanner
and have it done in no time.
A word of warning though. Since the PDF will contain an image for each
page, the files will be way too huge to send around on e-mail. Probably
around a hundred MB per manual. But that's unavoidable, since the point
of scanning these manuals would be to preserve the pages intact. So they
would either need to be posted on a web site that has sufficient space, or
sent around on CD.
Who is the copyright holder of the manuals? We would need to get
permissions before distributing them to people in this way.
Best,
--Robert Englebretson
> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:05:03 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Catherine Thomas <braille@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Stuff from house cleaning
>
> Charles,
> I'm not any sort of expert on transferring print material to electronic
> format but I don't think the full effect of the manuals could be
> transferred. The layout of the pages is a unique one. It is designed
> specially so that a student and a teacher can work together. The teacher's
> editons contain teaching instructions for each page as well as the student
> practice pages. In other words, the electronic format would only be of use
> if it would re-print exactly as the original appears. I don't know that it
> is possible.
> Catherine
>
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