12 Nov
2004
12 Nov
'04
2:05 a.m.
At 08:45 PM 11/11/04 -0800, you wrote:
Actually the company that apparently made Scenicwriter still sells
software that can handle the files, but I don't think it can convert
them. The IBM Mag cards on the other hand...
The interesting thing is they're looking for people to type the books
into the computer rather than OCR them. And yes, there has already
been quite a bit of discussion on if OCRing them wouldn't make more
sense.
Zane
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I'm aware of someone that is looking to get
some of the books they
publish into a modern format. Curently the data exists in such
formats as IBM Mag Cards and Scenicwriter, as well as other formats.
Does anyone know of anyway of converting these two formats into
something like RTF?
If they published the books then probably the easiest way to get
them into modern formats is to OCR the books. I doubt you're going
to be able to find anything to read the Scenicwriter and IBM Mag
cards.
Joe