[Coco] List of copied manuals ready to be scanned

[Joel Ewy]

Andrew wrote:

> ...

>

> Fedor, if you have something unique like that, don't destroy it

> physically - destroy it digitally! In other words, scan, cut, paste,

> stitch, etc in Photochop (or Gimp, or whatever your preference is) -

> A5 is a weird size (do they they even make scanners for that?).

>

> If you are going to have to go through a lot of trouble for a scan,

> you might as well do it on the computer instead of physically. Yes,

> this will be a very painful thing to go through, and it won't be exact

> (impossible to get the alignment perfect, without using some kind of

> external frame). But you can get it really close with some time and

> effort. Just make sure you scan at a very high resolution (I would

> imagine offsets would be easier to hide at a higher res - I may be

> wrong), then once you have the document reassembled in your editing

> program, reduce it down to something reasonable for the "final"

> (although, in today's world, keeping it original size shouldn't be a

> big deal, except for those still on modems).

>

ISTR there was a utility that was packaged for Debian at one time that
was intended to (semi?)automatically stitch together multiple scans of
things that were too big to fit on a flatbed scanner window, such as LP
album sleeves.  Unfortunately I don't remember the name of this
program.  In a recent Ubuntu, typing 'stitch' into Synaptic brings up
hugin ( http://hugin.sf.net ) which is a tool for stitching together
photos to make panoramas.  Something like this might make a little
lighter work of scanning these odd-sized pages.

JCE

> Well - good luck! I can't wait to see your contributions!

>

> -- Andrew L Ayers

>    Glendale, Arizona

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