[sudo-discuss] robot manuals need OCR

[hol at gaskill.com]

haven't messed with ocr in a minute but i'll give it a shot this
afternoon 

On 2014-09-11 01:01, Jake wrote: 

> so all the manuals i have for the robot are SCANS of some sort of papyrus, upon which the instructions were once inscribed.
> 
> this means they are not searchable. It seems at first that they can be searched, and copy and paste, but that is only the safety warning pages inserted by the people who scanned the pages into the PDF. None of the content is searchable!
> 
> if you know how to do OCR (optical character recognition) on a PDF and make it so that one can still search the PDF without altering its readable appearance, please do so to some of the manuals here:
> 
> http://spaz.org/~jake/robot [1]
> 
> highest priority would be the programming manual:
> 
> http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/479950-3-Programming_manual_v4.pdf [2]
> 
> and the robot arm manual:
> 
> http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/479951-4-K10S_manual.pdf [3]
> 
> this would be an example of a PDF that has the scanned parts searchable:
> 
> http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/02-TOE-C945-111%20-%20Service%20manual%20Motoman%20K6S%20K10S.pdf [4]
> 
> -jake
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Links:
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[1] http://spaz.org/~jake/robot
[2] http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/479950-3-Programming_manual_v4.pdf
[3] http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/479951-4-K10S_manual.pdf
[4]
http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/02-TOE-C945-111%20-%20Service%20manual%20Motoman%20K6S%20K10S.pdf
[5] https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
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