On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> > > That appears to be an illegal scanned copy of the material.
> > > Don't be surprised when the publisher demands its removal.
> >
> > Hmm....i am not aware of the 'scanning' technologies...but is it possible
> > to do such a good scan? Except for the diagrams, the book looks really
> > good...including the cross-referencing.
> > I wont be too sad if it is removed...for I am armed with my own copy :)
Actually i meant I was armed with the printed copy of the book here !! :)
> I have the whole set of books myself.
> (It describes certain snapshot of BSD IP stack, _NOT_ Linux IP stack.)
>
> "scanning" means using a flat-bed scanner to read each page in as
> pixels, and then to OCR the text in, and manually post-processing
> it to clean and correct OCR mistakes, and finally to add HTML tagging.
> Possibly just hand-typing it all in. Finally adding pictures in
> as GIFs/whatever.
Hmm....looks like a real bother to accomplish...but i guess its invaluable
once done...albeit illegal!
> If the pictures had not been obviously skewed/pixleized, it could
> have been published in that form from the source material, in which
> case the issue becomes more difficult to determine -- but it would
> have been at the publisher's site, or publisher approved with clear
> indication of the issue, anyway.
Thanks for the explanation.
ciao,
Amit
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