Search-able CMP parts book?
 

Hi All

Does anyone have any of the CMP parts book as a search-able data base?

I was doing some parts hunting in the HUP parts book and decided to get organize and scan the page in so I could make notes. That lead to hitting the OCR program and all of a sudden I had a MS Word document copy of the page that can be searched. Before I run all my CMP parts books through the scanner has anybody already done all the work?

Cheers Phil

... nope, haven't done that yet, but should be easy with a good high resolution scan and a good OCR programm.

Greetings
Chris

Phil,

Our friends of the Canadian Register - http://www.canadianregister.co.uk/ - have manuals in .pdf format available for download.

Try contacting them to see if you cab make a deal to get the scans they made to produce the . pdf files?

HTH,
Hanno

... I just tried to convert a pdf with Abbyy Finereader 10 into a searchable document (pdf or word). Works fine. So you don't need the original scans, you can just use the pdf's provided.

Chris

I've got the HUP parts book as PDF.
 

Hi All

The HUP one was easy because I had copied it years ago it is a June 1945 edition and Bart Vanderveen didn't have that date so I made a copy and sent it to him. While copying it I'd made an extra loose copy which had fed into the document copier/scanner at work back in 2000. So I have it as PDF on CD the next step will be to see if my OCR program can read a section of the CD at a time. Because of the CD file structure the book is one big file.

But why I was asking if anybody else had played this game already so I could piggyback on their work or do I have to start from scratch.

I only have the HUP or C8A-04 parts list and the C60L-03 to work from.

I'll take a look at what the registry has and see if my OCR program can pick it off.

Any thoughts welcome and I'll keep you posted.

Cheers Phil