[GreenKeys] M28 ASR Manual scan

[Tom Jennings]

>  Any advice on this project,
> possibly from someone who has attempted this in the past, would be
> appreciated.

For what it's worth --

I've done it both ways -- the Hard Way and the Easy Way. There
may be others :-)

Hard Way: flipping a bound book down page by page on a flatbed
scanner, and clicking SCAN in Gimp (software).  When I have some
50+ images scanned, I save & rename them to PAGENUMBER.tiff,
PAGENUMBER being of couse the actual book page number, 1, 2,
3, 5-7, etc. Makes it FAR easier to proof and fix errors.

Prognosis: tedious.

Easy way: pay Kinko's to do the job. I had an ancient computer
manual (paper) copied and had them scan the larger images at
the same time. I forget the per-price charge, but they can
tell you over the phone.  Since they had a clean copy, and the
originals were all black on white text and line drawings, there
were no problems. Photo pages were hand placed and cost more,
but there were only a dozen.

For standard flat sheets they have auto doc feed scanners and
the per-price is reasonable. You give them a manual, wait a week,
write a check, you get CDROM(s) with TIFF images and your manual back.

They have signs up about copyright issues, but I found Kinko's to
be reasonable. Luckily, my 1963 Librascope/General Precision manuals
didn't have any copyright on them! Though I'm sure they in fact
retain copyright, whoever owns them now, but I think the intent
is largely to stop peopl from avoiding paying for things, eg. copying
stolen/borrowed software manuals. When I pointed out the age
of the document they stopped caring immediately. Clearly tty manuals
fall in this category -- regardless of the strictly-speaking
copyright status the collective intent here isn't profit --
or at least it would probably make a poor profit :-)

Prognosis: not cheap, but reasonable.