Retro Manuals. Scanning for archive.org or similar? Tips please

picnic · 3 May 2024 at 10:37

So I've been doing a bit of sorting out of old stuff and come across some old manuals for monitors and the like. Looking on archive.org they don't have some of them. Anybody got any recommendations for the easiest way to capture these so I can preserve them? I'd probably have to use my iPhone to capture the content.

TIA

paradigm · 3 May 2024 at 18:57

Microsoft Lens will combine them into a single file pretty easily, and does auto-straightening of pages.

picnic · 20 May 2024 at 10:33

Sorry, thought I'd replied to this and said thank you. Thank you.

blueacid · 31 May 2024 at 12:09

Thank you also for putting old manuals on the internet. Someone somewhere will be delighted to find those, I'm sure.

smsmasters · 31 May 2024 at 12:15

Use an app like Adobe Scan or Microsoft Lens to scan the manuals with your iPhone. Ensure good lighting and scan at the highest resolution. Save as PDFs and use OCR features to make text searchable. Follow Archive.org's guidelines for uploading.