On 9006 day of my life 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?
Certainly. This is *your* book. I'm not going to put it somewhere else.
What would OCR buy us? Searching, I guess, which is a fantastic plus. Anything else?
As other already suggested, we can re-typeset you book with LaTeX. And produce even more compact and good-looking PDF document with searching, copy-pasting, printing, and so on. And you can use sources for new improved edition of the book. :)
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.
It's going to be large project, what about creating new list? :) Can people at haskell.org help? P.S. I will upload DjVu version on Monday to Marnie's site. P.P.S. Perhaps, I can perform OCR myself if I will find a way to automate it. I will use high-res scans, which are much better than JPEGs for OCRing. Give me some days for experiments. I need help for converting to LaTeX and proofreading. -- Ivan Boldyrev