CD-ROM PUBLISHING
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Rick
I agree that scanning without OCR is not the optimal use of the
technology but it is of prime importance to my employers that each
article must appear in exactly the same way as the article that
appeared in the original book/journal. That is the reason for their
publishing in book form direct from photocopies. And as far as the
number of pages is concerned, surely if a CD-ROM can take 100,000
pages of plain text, it will easily take 400 pages of graphic images.
Wouldn't it?
Software- I have downloaded the file SFTWR.TXT and found it the most
complete source on the topic. In fact, Byte magazine of February 1993
mentions 4-5 companies in the retrieval software business and I could
find all of them in your file. However your file does not mention
INMAGIC- they are on CompuServe GO INMAGIC (Library 15).
FYI, a CD-ROM can hold upwards of 250,000 pages of text… garphics are a bit
harder to quantify although I just finished
3 picture archives for a client and they were averaging 7000
graphics per disc.
David L. Edwards
Shoestring Engineering, Inc.
David,
I was just reading your response to Sanjay and thought I'd throw another two
cents worth in. There is a new compression driver that allows 1.3 GB of data
or more onto a CD-R. That should really boost both the text page count and the
graphic count.
Jerry Warner
CD Solutions, Inc.
Sanjay:
Inmagic will be on the next iteration of our list, and they do have software
(as do a couple of others) which would do what you want.
>>And as far as the number of pages is concerned, surely if a CD-ROM can take
100,000 pages of plain text, it will easily take 400 pages of graphic images.
Wouldn't it?<<
My remarks were not questioning the technical possibility of the kind of
project you described. Certainly it is do-able. My question related to the
wisdom of undertaking such a project from a marketing perspective. Just
because it can be done, doesn't mean it should be done. Will it save you lots
of money? Have your customers been clamoring to read reproduced pages on a
computer screen? What is the rationale for doing this? If a rationale seems
difficult to generate, maybe it is appropriate to re-think the product concept.
A concept that works well on paper, may not necessarily work so well on CDROM,
and vice-versa.
All I'm suggsting is that the technology be put to its highest and best use for
both the producer and the customer. And if your employer wants to take
advantage of new technologies, they might want to re-examine their business
strategies.
FWIW. – Rich Bowers