Might’ve hit the jackpot what do you all think I should do with these?

[retr01]

I have a Fujistu Scansnap desktop document scanner, which is fast, decent, and straight 99% of the time. It OCRS automatically as well. I'd happily work with you @jajan547. For 95% of pages, it would output fine. I would fix up a few pages. It should not be an issue. I used to do this type of thing for several years. Digitizing things is one of my favorite things to do.

I also have a flat bed scanner that I could use if needed.

Pirate Ship is reasonable with deeply discounted shipping rates. They just discounted more with UPS rates.

 

[jajan547]

Let me see what I can do so long as they come back as they were I can work with that PM me and lets work out where I ship to.

 

[mmu_man]

Some hackerspaces or fablabs might have a DIY Book Scanner, or help you build one, which takes some space but works quite well for large volumes.

 

[karrots]

Good point the university library near me has a commercial one available for public use. Not used it before but I see it when I visit.

 

[pocketscience]

Just check the bitsavers archive. They already have a bunch of those docs you have scanned. No point wasting effort.

 

[jajan547]

Just checked, Missing 1-7 and the peripherals guide so safe to say these should be preserved. You're right 1 and 2 are already there but those are for the Macintosh family and much newer these are older and this information isn't there.

 

[pocketscience]

Definitely preserve it! If I was in the same country I’d offer to help.

 

[karrots]

Here is the Apple Service Technical Procedures Volume One run through Adobe Acrobat Pro. It shrunk the PDF size considerably.

I kept getting an error when trying to deskew. I'll have to work on that and see if I can figure it out. These have at least been processed for OCR and compressed.

If the document is a good enough replacement the current upload to Archive.org could be replaced with this one.

 

[jajan547]

I'll upload yours now until I get these out to @retr01, thank you @karrots

 

[jajan547]

I changed it to the one you edited @karrots.

 

[retr01]

@karrots, what error message do you see when you try to deskew?

 

[karrots]

It was something about scanning still in process. I have since fixed it. Uninstall + the Adobe removal tool + reinstall seems to have made things stable.

I'll run through the other files now.

 

[karrots]

I've uploaded the other files I've processed to this location

‪Apple Service Manuals‬‏ - Google Drive

drive.google.com

 

[jajan547]

These are lovely, thank you!

 

[karrots]

I didn't look through the whole file but if anything needs rotating or something I can do that.

Perfection would be to add bookmarks for the chapters.

 

[jajan547]

The original binder have these but my scanner is too small to fit them

 

[retr01]

I can do something about that.

 

[jajan547]

I can do something about that.

Thank goodness

 

[retr01]

I have some tricks I can do.

 

[karrots]

I wasn't even thinking about the tabs. I meant going through and finding all the chapter breaks and adding PDF bookmarks. So that its clickable.