[ExI] [Extropolis] Re: New PDFs of Extropy Magazine with OCR

[Giulio Prisco]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 7:12 PM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Giulio!
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>  It makes me nostalgic to be reminded what Extropy and the Extropian List
> used to be like.
>

I have that feeling now and then but I try to think that was the necessary,
preliminary dreaming phase. Now we are moving toward planning and doing
those things in the real world, which is messy and much harder. We had to
realize that the advances we want to see won't be easy and will take much
longer than we hoped. But this is real engineering in the real world!


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> John K Clark
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> On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 1:20 AM Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I produced a single downloadable PDF with all issues #1-#17 of the
>> Extropy Magazine, slightly compressed (223 MB). The text is searchable
>> and copyable (95+ percent).
>>
>> Download link:
>> https://github.com/Extropians/Extropy/blob/master/Extropy%231-%2317-ocr.pdf
>>
>> If you have better scans of the individual issues, please upload them
>> to https://github.com/Extropians/Extropy
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 9, 2023 at 7:08 AM Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I uploaded to the github repository Extropians/Extropy the full  sets
>> > of PDFs of the Extropy Magazine, now with OCR, produced by Alessio
>> > Pecoraro. I've been checking them to make sure the text is searchable
>> > and copyable,  and so far it seems that yes, 98+ percent of the text
>> > is searchable and copyable, with the exception of a few points where
>> > the quality of the PDF scans was too poor. I'll produce a single
>> > downloadable PDF with all issues, but first, please do a couple of
>> > random checks (search for text, copy/paste text) and let me know.
>> > https://github.com/Extropians/Extropy
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