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Could use help OCRing 'Mastercode' program text [message #105759] Mon, 14 March 2005 17:08
Christian Lott is currently offline  Christian Lott
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About a month ago Siggy asked about the Machine Code Master book which
contained the Mastercode program and Basic extensions.

Being a relatively rare item, he couldn't find one for sale (he gave his
copy to a friend?) and I didn't want to sell my copy. As luck had it, he
was able to transfer his original typed in Mastercode program from tape
to disk and to d64.

So in thanks for going through the trouble of getting the program for
us, I scanned the book. It's a 190 page book. I was able to scan 2
facing pages at once since the pages were small.

There are two parts to this book. The first section outlines and
thoroughly documents the Mastercode program itself. This is a Basic
program which includes a machine code monitor, an assembler and a file
utility. This is what we have currently. This is what Siggy typed in by
hand years ago and has transfered to d64.

Part 2 of the book contains the Basic extender program and a set of
Basic extender programs. We are now interested in getting these programs
into machine readable format by OCR.

I've clipped out all the program listings in order. I used the OCR
program which came with my scanner but it does a terrible job.

So I put these clips on my website along with the text files my OCR
program 'Scansoft Omnipage' ('free version').

It would only take a second for someone who had a better OCR program to
run these clips though their OCR batch scheduler and mail me the
results. It would be appreciated, especially if the resulting quality is
better than what I've got now (not difficult, I'm sure).

http://members.cox.net/sagrazi/MC%20Clips%20P22.zip

I don't plan on ever attempting to OCR the entire book. Once I get the
files straightened out and I'm sure every things working, I'll put all
the scans and programs in a zip and so you can download by eMule. It's
not really suitable for printing as is because the pages are so wide. To
print, you'd have to use a wide enough paper landscape-wise.

Maybe someone with a good OCR program may become interested enough to do
the work necessary for conversion.


Christian

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