Scanning Suggestions (Bookmarks & Colour)

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Fri Aug 27 16:10:32 CDT 2021


On 8/27/21 2:05 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:

> For material such as the RSX manuals you mentioned, the tool needed is a compression algorithm that handles color with hard edges faithfully.  Basically that means a lossless compression scheme.  That should be fine, since pages like that should compress very well, at least if the scan has been touched up just a bit to make the page background reasonably pure white.

Ethan worked on a filter a long time ago for DEC manuals. J David Bryan's work was mentioned recently.

It is trivial to add page bookmarks with Eric Smith's tumble with the -b %F option



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