[Coco] reducing size of scanned magazines

[Steven Hirsch]

On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

> I experimented quite a bit with the OCR possibilities.  Clearscan did
> not reduce the size of the file, but it does increase the readability
> of the text to nearly that of the original, maybe even better in some
> cases.  After refining the process a bit, I now have a 40MB file that
> seems to be just as readable as the 550MB original.  The
> graphics/pictures/artwork are not as good as the original, but
> certainly fine enough for me.
>
> I put the 40MB I've made here:
> http://coco.spogbiper.com/rainbow.june.1985_opt1.pdf

That looks terrific.  Much easier on the eyes than the original scan.

Nice work!

Steve


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