Peter,
I have scanned quite a few manuals. I will take a look at the scans. I find it is always best to ingest the scans as tif (lossless compressed with lzw or something) and use a separate tool to convert to pdf as one of the final steps in processing. As a rule I never use the scanner's scanning software beyond what is absolutely necessary.
Never successfully scanned a fiche, though. Have a Minolta MS-6000 with a broken SCSI interface. The MS-800 looks nice. Have been eyeing a ScanPro 2000/3000 for fiche for years but never found the right auction.
As for OCR I use Tesseract. Free, very good, and easy to use.
A tool like tiff2pdf like Mr. Gardner pointed out works well. I think my script uses img2pdf which is probably similar.
-Michael Bierlein
On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 09:48 Peter Brown <
peter@...> wrote:
If anyone wants to have a go, there are some sample scans here?
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Files - A temporary directory for photographs and help relating to emails and posting - 8430A 08340-90021 Service vol 1 section1
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They are PDF'd from the scanning software with minimum compression.? The software will also produce .tiff files if these are a better place to start
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Peter
