On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 09:56:45AM -0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
Matthew
Yes, I'm happy for you to OCR the book, but can I ask that whatever you get be made accessible from my web site, so there's one place people can go to find everything that's available?
What would OCR buy us? Searching, I guess, which is a fantastic plus. Anything else?
Thanks very much for offering to help. I've replied to haskell-café, so everyone knows what's up, but we can now save everyone's bandwidth by narrowing the thread to Ivan, Marnie (who did the original work), you, and me. If anyone else wants to join in, do yell.
An OCRed version might help with my publishing the book via cafepress. The basic problem is that in order to create a pdf from the tiffs, I end up embedding the raw bitmap data (at a very high resolution for decent printing) and end up with a pdf that is way to big for cafepress to handle (even with bitmap compression). I have had some luck with autotrace and other tools to turn bitmaps into outlines, but not any that produced readable output of a suitable size. if the text were OCRed, then I could use outline fonts and considerably improve the printed quality and keep the file size down. I am not sure how easy it will be to integrate the output of the OCR software into an appropriate pdf, but I can try. John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈