A500 manual scanned

[orange]

I've scanned complete A500 manual (took me long time, phew), here it is:

djvu format, 4Mb

jpg format, 70Mb, rapidshare

[weirdami]

All that work and nobody can see it.

[orange]

what do you mean? links seem to work fine to me..

.djvu is a little bit exotic format but it really is well suited for scanned text. Its next best thing after OCR (very similar to it, it stores for eg. letter "o" as bitmap once and uses it again and again for every occurrence). I'm not sure if there is Amiga viewer for it, though.

.jpg is bad for text, I know, but there are some photos in there, and .png would be too big

[bloodline]

Would not PDF be a better format?

[weirdami]

I mean that you wasted your time because this thread probably violates AO rules.

[Framiga]

i doubt that scanning an A500 manual could break any rule!

And btw, telling someone whos wasting time is not that kind.

anyway thanks orange!

[Hodgkinson]

Thanks from me too...

And thanks for the WB3.0 manual you scanned ;-)

Ta,
Hodgkinson.

[Nlandas]

weirdami wrote:
I mean that you wasted your time because this thread probably violates AO rules.

Oh, come on - today it's hard to find a manufacturer that doesn't give you access to their manuals in PDF format online for free. Even my lawn mower and snow blowers have PDF manuals online for free.

If Amiga, Inc. was really interested in supporting the remaining community they'd be creating an online support area with all the old manuals that they hold rights to. With modern multipage scanners it wouldn't take more than a few weeks to put up the majority of Amiga computer reference manuals.

Since they aren't doing it, it's up to the community and I highly doubt that A, Inc. is going to go after someone for scanning an old OS manual.

-Nyle

[tiffers]

On Page 7-20, can anyone confirm my suspicions that the following is actually an error:

DIR MyDiskDir > OPT A

Shouldn't it be:

DIR OPT A > MyDiskDir

(I check this in WB1.3 and OS3.9, and it doesn't work in either of them. So I doubt that it worked this way in 1.2 either)

tiffers

[skurk]

weirdami wrote:
All that work and nobody can see it.

I took the liberty of mirroring it here.

Orange: If you don't want me to mirror it, just say the word and I'll remove it.

[Varthall]

orange wrote:
.djvu is a little bit exotic format but it really is well suited for scanned text. Its next best thing after OCR (very similar to it, it stores for eg. letter "o" as bitmap once and uses it again and again for every occurrence). I'm not sure if there is Amiga viewer for it, though.

I have made a preliminary port of DjVuLibre (command line tools only) for OS4, but I have yet to test if the various tools work or not. You can find the archive  here, any feedback will be appreciated.

Varthall

[hardlink]

bloodline wrote:
Would not PDF be a better format?

I take it you mean that the content is already avilable as a text file (already OCR'd). In that case, I would prefer a compressed HTML directory format - no bloated reader needed, I can ever read the text on my favorite web browser, Lynx!

[orange]

Well, I finally made some quick .pdf and .html (with finereader).

Here are the results.

[trekiej]

Thanks.

[AmigaMance]

 Thank you, orange.