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Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2019 21:16:11 -0800
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Subject: Re: [TUHS] Failing Memory of an Algol Based System from years ago
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On Sat, 09 Mar 2019 15:29:11 -0700 "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.e=
du> wrote:
>
> I therefore make this posting in the hope that someone else might be
> encouraged to tackle similar document improvements in the bitsavers
> archives.  Although it takes a bit of experimentation, with the
> exception of the OCR conversion, the entire operation can be done with
> free software on pretty much any modern computing platform, thanks to
> the portability of the needed software.

How about tesseract for OCR? https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract