Hmm, I have a bit of a problem. I purchased a copy of the Second Edition, and started to OCR the thing into Word documents. However, my OCR software, ABBYY, is coughing and choking over some of the "artsy" pages. Somebody decided to print the text *over* faint fractal backgrounds, and the software has trouble resolving these "unknown characters"! The problem is not *too* severe, but more than a normal amount of manual editing is required. I'm going to persevere for a little while, at least, but at my age I wonder if I shall live long enough to complete the task! John W. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul N. Lee" <Paul.N.Lee@Worldnet.att.net> To: <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 5:38 PM Subject: Re: [Fractint] FractInt Collection -- Volunteer Project ??
John Wilson wrote:
One of the problems in the creation of a Fractint collection would appear to be the creation of a "soft" copy of "Fractal Creations". Now I have only the First Edition, but I tested the feasibility of using OCR to make that soft copy available. Just a couple of pages conviced me that this is do-able, altough a lot of work is involved. My question is...is it worth doing? If anyone would be interested, I might just go ahead and acquire the Second Edition, and plunge into the task.
There is still a lot of good and useful information about fractals for the beginner and intermediate levels. And when (or if) FractInt is ever upgraded emough to be more inline with today's applications, then the references to the program would still be useful.
The full text of the 2nd Edition should probably not take up more than 1-MB as a text file. What will increase the size of a complete electronic book are the illustrations, charts, graphs, tables, etc.