Share your knowledge on these two classic MPCs
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By SimonInAustralia Wed May 08, 2013 11:43 pm
ZWUKOLOW wrote:What's up Simon, did you manage to produce the PDF in the end? Cheers.

:lol: I was actually hoping...
Clint wrote:I'm sure you're not the only person on earth with a hard copy; anyone who has these elusive documents and may read this could also help..

...cause it is a PITA, and/or I'm just lazy.

But I will try to pull my finger out and stitch the other pages together, and into a PDF, soon.
By Clint Thu May 09, 2013 10:36 pm
I bought a Plustek OpticBook 3600 book scanner recently for about £25 (used) so I could scan a 250+ page book, and easily turned it into a PDF. The software flips the odd/even pages for you and the scanner glass goes right to the edge, unlike regular scannerbeds. This means that the whole page is scanned properly without distortion of the text toward the spine. Took a couple of hours but hey...

I was planning to sell it after using it once, but now I see how useful it will be with borrowed books and other print material.

http://plustek.com/usa/products/opticbo ... book-3600/

Apologies for the OT rambling... :wink:
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By amenfetamin Fri May 10, 2013 6:07 am
SimonInAustralia wrote:
ZWUKOLOW wrote:What's up Simon, did you manage to produce the PDF in the end? Cheers.

:lol: I was actually hoping...

Hehehe, sometimes it happens to me as well :lol:

SimonInAustralia wrote:But I will try to pull my finger out and stitch the other pages together, and into a PDF, soon.

Thanks man, I'm sure that I'm not the only one here who will appreciate the effort. Cheers!
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By SimonInAustralia Fri May 10, 2013 6:21 am
Clint wrote:I bought a Plustek OpticBook 3600 book scanner recently
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and the scanner glass goes right to the edge, unlike regular scannerbeds. This means that the whole page is scanned properly without distortion of the text toward the spine.

I like the way you can scan right up close to the spine.

Still only A4, and would still need 4 scans, stitched together, for the larger schematic pages.