On Mon, 26 May 2014 22:15:04 +0300, Popeye wrote:
> On 2014-05-26 07:04:09 +0000, Asten said:
>
>> On 2014-05-22 19:58:20 +0000, Popeye said:
>>
>>> This might be ambitious, but would anyone be interested helping build
>>> a complete TSR collection here? At the very least, this would preserve
>>> these texts for another few years so that they might be enjoyed by
>>> future generations.
>>
>> Certainly. Although not everything is available in electronic form
>> AFAIK. We'll need to get to e-bay for some extremely rare books. First
>> thing we'll need, I think, is an authoritative checklist - I'd mark
>> there what I've got.
>
> 1. I have virtually everything D&D until AD&D 2nd edition. There are no
> mega torrents that have everything that I have, and I've probably spent
> 2 waking weeks over the last year tracking most things down.
>
> 2. Alas, the collector's guide has a few gaps, but it's a good start.
>
> 3. Can anyone suggest a better app than Unison for OSX for upping files?
> If so, I can dump my TSR D&D collection--I'll have to check, but i'd
> guess it's 25gb or so.
>
> 4. I'd suggest that we don't OCR in that OCR is hit and miss, even with
> Abbyy. I personally prefer to have high res base scans that people can
> OCR and edit themselves; the bane of my digital collecting is finding a
> poorly OCRed document of which there is no non OCRed version.
I believe the command line tool I use on Linux, sanguinews, will work on
OS X. Edit a config file, and then kick of the tool with a path to a
folder full of files and just leave it running.
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