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SMS Power! - scans

Added some new SMS regional cover variations, some GG carts, some SC-3000 books from Australia, and French and Brazilian magazines; from dezanuebe, anagrama, weakmum and Andrew Ritchie.

Lots of US boxes, plus a few cartridges and manuals from Youltar. Australian promotional material suggesting killing fish, and loads of low-quality Japanese images just to realise how many need to be scanned...

Five new scans from anagrama.

I scanned a book :) It's one of those covermounted magazine game cheats/tips books from 1992, which for some reason I've kept all these years.

Tips Force

That is very cool. Any chance of a pdf of it?? would be nice to search through the pdf for a specific game if needed.

To make it searchable, you'd need to OCR it. I don't know what the state of the art is in OCR software, but the free software that came with my scanner about five years ago is kind of sucky, but works far better than the best free OCR software I could find currently available.

The only problem is, it requires 1-bit scans at at least 300dpi which would make it take a lot longer to scan (this book took about an hour). It is trainable though, although I never managed to get it to work any better while training; ultimately it may be possible to get some software trained enough to recognise entire manuals. But anyway, these scans aren't easily OCRable, and I need a faster scanner.

Yet more scans from anagrama :)

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Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14741 Location: London	Scans update Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:27 pm
	SMS Power! - scans Added some new SMS regional cover variations, some GG carts, some SC-3000 books from Australia, and French and Brazilian magazines; from dezanuebe, anagrama, weakmum and Andrew Ritchie.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14741 Location: London	Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 11:57 pm
	Lots of US boxes, plus a few cartridges and manuals from Youltar. Australian promotional material suggesting killing fish, and loads of low-quality Japanese images just to realise how many need to be scanned...

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14741 Location: London	Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 5:06 pm
	Five new scans from anagrama.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14741 Location: London	Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:11 pm
	I scanned a book :) It's one of those covermounted magazine game cheats/tips books from 1992, which for some reason I've kept all these years. Tips Force

Youltar Site Admin Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 306 Location: Wisconsin, U.S.A.	Maxim's scanned book Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 12:53 am
	That is very cool. Any chance of a pdf of it?? would be nice to search through the pdf for a specific game if needed.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14741 Location: London	Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:34 am
	To make it searchable, you'd need to OCR it. I don't know what the state of the art is in OCR software, but the free software that came with my scanner about five years ago is kind of sucky, but works far better than the best free OCR software I could find currently available. The only problem is, it requires 1-bit scans at at least 300dpi which would make it take a lot longer to scan (this book took about an hour). It is trainable though, although I never managed to get it to work any better while training; ultimately it may be possible to get some software trained enough to recognise entire manuals. But anyway, these scans aren't easily OCRable, and I need a faster scanner.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14741 Location: London	Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:54 pm
	Yet more scans from anagrama :)

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