manx is dead?

On Sun, 2009-09-27 22:28:03 +0200, Pontus <pontus at update.uu.se> wrote: I've been long thinking about scanned documents and the manx database specifically. Some time ago, I got my hands on a scanned pages (multi-page TIFFs, each page containing two book pages) and worked some time on them. It resulted in some script doing cutting/straigthening, reassembling a PDF and OCRing it, placing the text invisibly over the images (so you can cut'n'paste it, depending on the OCR quality of course :) ) I've started working further on it, eg. building some web frontend to add tags (eg. isbn=1234567, author=foo, ...). That's not yet really cool (it's experimentation after all), but I think that could easily be extended to do: * Full-text search on the PDFs. * Help building nice PDFs from scanned images * Maintain a useable metadata index (though I'm not too keen on the tag concept therefor) I'll /not/ publish it yet, nor give public access to my scanned book mentioned above, but I think I'll polish it a bit and offer it. Indexing the bitsavers.org material would be a nice first step. Do you think that would/could be useful for searching all the stuff? (And maybe for re-creating the PDFs with added OCRed text. This, at some time, might be particularly useful if ever scanned microfiche pages show up.) MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw at lug-owl.de +49-172-7608481 Signature of: They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, the second : deserve neither liberty nor safety. (Ben Franklin)