Reworking airplane web page

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  1. bwilson4web

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    After getting my plans and charts digitized, I reworked the whole of my N19WT web site to accomplish:
    • consistent web directory structure - using a Macintosh master to make a tar file with a public available copy
    • iPad sync - photos are shared using iTunes as 'albums' needed to find relevant materials
    • structuring major mods - engine replacement, landing gear, and cabin
    It is a 'work in progress' but it is moving from a 'log', a chronology of events, to something specific to each major tasks. One major accomplishment is replacing the digitized, chart, loaded into PowerPoint with a traced, PowerPoint vectors. True to scale, the size of the PowerPoint chart shrunk by about a factor of five.

    Also, I'm creating the first electronic table of contents with the 'errata' text for the drawings. Going from paper-to-electronic works. Now if I can just find:
    • OCR program that takes jpg and generates text - getting the manual from image to text will make a substantial reduction in volume but also allow the 'errata' to be incorporated in the text instead of the table of contents.
    • Reasonable 3D drawing package - something that allows making 3D parts by tracing the 2D image and quickly sweeping in the Z-axis to make the 3D part. We talking MacDraw easy to use but with a sensible 3D expansion. This will make doing proper stress analysis as well as adding the 'errata' to the drawings.
    Thanks,
    Bob Wilson
     
  2. xs650

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    I have had good results with Nuance PDF Converter Professional 7.0. They are up to 8.0 now which they claim has some more capabilities but I haven't used it.

    The OCR is very good, it also does a reasonable job of taking page with illustrations and text and doing OCR on the text while leaving the illustrations as is. That part isn't as good as the OCR but I think it would still be a big labor saver if you are going to scan a manual. It will save as pdf, doc, docx, ppt, pptx, xls, etc. also txt.

    I think you can download a free evaluation copy to try it. I also saw this,
    Nuance PDF Converter Professional 7
    Version 7 Pro at 1/3 the list price of a new version 8 Pro. I think 7 would meet your needs.