[time-nuts] 3586A HQ PDF Manual available -optimization-

[J. Forster]

There was a lot of discussion about whether the company actually bought
the rights and/or whether the seller, in fact, owned the rights, , or just
some filing cabinets of hard copy manuals.

FWIW,

-John

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> Press Release
>
> October 2008
>
> Data Professionals of Pleasanton California has purchased the Copyrights
> and existing inventory of all legacy Heathkit
> product documentation from Heath Company of Benton Harbor Michigan for an
> undisclosed amount. The new company will make
> copies of the original legacy manuals available to the marketplace via its
> web site and through eBay and PayPal.
>
> -Chuck Harris
>
> WB6BNQ wrote:
>> Chuck,
>>
>> Really ?  Which little ham company is that ?
>>
>> Bill....WB6BNQ
>>
>> Chuck Harris wrote:
>>
>>> You obviously haven't come across all of the Adobe acrobat OCR'd
>>> manuals
>>> on logsa.  They are amazingly unusable.  The OCR program gets way off
>>> kilter, and makes a mess of large sections of the manuals... and
>>> unfortunately,
>>> nobody has the resources to proofread the results.
>>>
>>> Don't waste your time on the Heathkit manual.  The license to reproduce
>>> the
>>> manuals was bought up by some little ham company, and they are very
>>> inclined
>>> to chase down any heathkit manuals on the internet, and serve the
>>> hosting site
>>> with a take down notice.  The only thing you are "allowed" to put on
>>> the net is the
>>> schematic.
>>>
>>> -Chuck Harris
>>>
>>> Chris Albertson wrote:
>>>> The best thing you can do after you scan a manual is run it through
>>>> OCR.
>>>> If you have Acrobat then you have one of the best OCR systems around.
>>>> This dramatically improves the readabilty and crispness of the text
>>>> and
>>>> at the same time makes the document much smaller and also it makes
>>>> it searchable.     It does require a bit of time because you have to
>>>> check
>>>> the quality of the OCR.  But it mostly works well.  I'm working on a
>>>> Heatkit
>>>> manual I have but is not yet available on-line.  It will be OCR'd.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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