dont know why the following reached my mailbox before the message board
& lots of other weird stuff has been going on i will explain if wanted
but the point is congrats to brian for undertaking to revise bus&ss
& of course i would like to help with this dream job
brilliant
lets do it
>From: "bjbutlerus" >Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com >To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com >Subject: [BoundaryPoint] BUS&SS Project >Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 01:27:14 -0000 > >Lowell's last post leads me to describe a project I have been working >on for a while. Some time ago I scanned BUS&SS and extracted various >elements (text, pictures, tables, footnotes, etc.) as images. I then >used an OCR program to convert all of the text items to machine >readable text. My grand scheme is to rebuild the book as a >hyperlinked PDF document. I have been in the process of proofreading >and correcting this converted text but it is slow going due to the >number of glitches introduced during OCR. Maybe we should establish a >project to parcel out the work and produce this book. I would be >happy to act as technical editor. By the way, none of the material in >the book is copyrighted because it was produced by the USGS, so we can >use it however we want. > >I currently have a PDF version of the entire text of the book without >pictures, footnotes, index, table of contents, or any other niceties >you would expect in a real book, and it contains all of the >aforementioned OCR glitches, but I would be happy to send a copy to >anyone who is desparate for this book and is willing to request a copy >by e-mail. My e-mail address is: > >bjbutler@... > >If you are interested in working on a project to create a new revision >of the book, please e-mail me at the address above. > >BJB >