24 Jun
2011
24 Jun
'11
1:20 p.m.
In article <BLU166-W15779C05467E49AA6C9B24C9520 at phx.gbl>,
Dan Gahlinger <dgahling at hotmail.com> writes:
I have a few rather thick text printouts from the
mid-1970's on 132
column paper ,standard fanfold stuff printed out from DEC teletypes and
line printers I'm wondering what the best way to scan this in would be,
to get actual text out putthat's readable and usable ? In most cases
there is no way even the best OCR could tell the difference betwee nan
"L", "l", "1" or "I", and "O" or
"0" is just as bad. Hand-typing over 6"
thick printout is not my idea of fun. Any bright ideas? there's one
in particular I want to scan in and get documented, as there's an ol
d-wives tale about the code I want to verify if it's true (it's an
original 1970's printout of Zork in Fortran that is supposedly "auto-co
rrecting" after a fashion)not that I buy it... Dan.
I would use a high resolution digital camera and a tripod and
photograph each page. With the right orientation of the printout and
the tripod you can photograph all the "odd" pages first and just flip
through each pair of pages on the fanfold printout. Then reorient
things and flip through all the "even" pages of the printout. A
simple shell script will interleave the images back into their
original order.
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