[sudo-discuss] robot manuals need OCR

[Jake]

so all the manuals i have for the robot are SCANS of some sort of papyrus, 
upon which the instructions were once inscribed.

this means they are not searchable.  It seems at first that they can be 
searched, and copy and paste, but that is only the safety warning pages 
inserted by the people who scanned the pages into the PDF.  None of the 
content is searchable!

if you know how to do OCR (optical character recognition) on a PDF and 
make it so that one can still search the PDF without altering its readable 
appearance, please do so to some of the manuals here:

http://spaz.org/~jake/robot

highest priority would be the programming manual:

http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/479950-3-Programming_manual_v4.pdf

and the robot arm manual:

http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/479951-4-K10S_manual.pdf

this would be an example of a PDF that has the scanned parts searchable:

http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/02-TOE-C945-111%20-%20Service%20manual%20Motoman%20K6S%20K10S.pdf

-jake