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    From MIKE POWELL@1:2320/195 to ED VANCE on Fri Jan 16 07:45:00 2026
    I remember thinking that a Scanner would help entering maagazine pages of cod , thinking computer aided whatever would take the hard part of entering sever pages of code but never learned to do that after buying a scanner.
    That was years ago in my thinking

    You might need a specialized scanner, or scanner software, for that. Most
    of the scanners I have ever had/operated would save things in formats --
    as images or PDFs or some proprietary format -- that were not good for
    text manipulation.

    There might be utilities that could be used to extract the text out of
    those formats, though.

    Mike
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  • From Ed Vance@1:2320/105 to MIKE POWELL on Sun Jan 18 20:37:49 2026


    You might need a specialized scanner, or scanner software, for that. Most
    of the scanners I have ever had/operated would save things in formats --
    as images or PDFs or some proprietary format -- that were not good for
    text manipulation.

    There might be utilities that could be used to extract the text out of
    those formats, though.

    Mike
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    My thinking was using software with the scanner to convert the writing (printing) on the page into text.

    CAD is what I recall learning about.
    Computer Aided don't remember what the D meant, I'm guessing Design.

    It all adds up to Laziness on my part, hopeing the PC would do allthe work of entering paves and pages of pc code for Me.From what I can recall it was a program in Byte magazine for which direction an antenna should be Pointed toward a location.
    Ed
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  • From MIKE POWELL@1:2320/195 to ED VANCE on Mon Jan 19 08:48:00 2026
    My thinking was using software with the scanner to convert the writing (printing) on the page into text.

    My scanners didn't have such options (or at least not good ones!) but I am sure that others probably did.

    It all adds up to Laziness on my part, hopeing the PC would do allthe work of entering paves and pages of pc code for Me.From what I can recall it was a program in Byte magazine for which direction an antenna should be Pointed toward a location.

    I wouldn't necessarily call it laziness. Avoiding typos would be another motivator for such a project. I can remember spending hours typing in TI
    Basic programs from magazines or books just to wind up with a typo (or
    several) that I never could get tracked down.

    Mike
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  • From Rob Mccart@1:2320/105 to ED VANCE on Tue Jan 20 08:10:38 2026
    as images or PDFs or some proprietary format -- that were not good for
    >> text manipulation.
    >>
    >> There might be utilities that could be used to extract the text out of
    >> those formats, though.

    My thinking was using software with the scanner to convert the writing
    >(printing) on the page into text.

    I've used programs like that in the past. Usually you are converting
    PDF files but some of them can convert image files as well. It's a
    long time since I did that but a quick look online suggests that
    Adobe Acrobat can do PDF files and there are a number of online
    services that claim they can do it. PDF2GO mentiones converting
    pictures as well as PDF's. For programming though I'm not certain
    these programs are 100% accurate and results probably have to be
    checked for errors.

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