UCSD p-system manuals and disks?

[Toby Thain]

On 2018-03-20 7:50 AM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote:
> So I have imaged the three disks I found using ImageDisk:
> http://storage.datormuseum.se/u/96935524/Datormusuem/TEXAS.zip
> 
> Then I scanned one of the manuals. UCSD Pascal :
> http://storage.datormuseum.se/u/96935524/Datormusuem/UCSD-Pascal.pdf
> 
> The problem is that manual has text in red/brown and black. I scanned it in
> colour. However the actual colour of the scan varies a bit between pages.
> (Maybe because there are two sensors, one for top side and one for bottom
> side.)
> And the scan get very big.
> 
> Is there a way to create filter this pdf to use three colours and possibly
> compress it better? What is the best way to deal with scans of documents
> with coloured text. I know many DEC manuals that has coloured text as well.

Matt Zucker's noteshrink is designed for similar tasks. I've had good
results, even on whole books:

https://github.com/mzucker/noteshrink

Feel free to send me your original files if you'd like me to try things
out.	

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> /Mattis
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