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Brochures web page update

dremu

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Good news for the nerds among us. After over a decade of little-to-no maintenance, I've launched into a major revamp of the Brochures site, including rescanning the documents. All two thousand plus pages will be scanned in modern high resolution and saved in PDF format. On top of that, they're searchable by keyword, so you can find "engine" or "transmission" or even specific RPO's or gear ratios in each document.

As an example, here's an early scan of one of the spec pages

brochures-demo-before.png


versus a rendering of it now at partial scale (it blows up basically as much as you want -- see linkie below)

brochures-demo-after.png


and you can see the whole page thus:

http://www.slosh.com/ck5/1986 Chevy Recreation & Trailering 13.pdf

It'll take me some time to do all the documents, so it's a work in progress. But it should be a lot more informative, or at least easier to read :)

Link for those who haven't memorized it and didn't see it in my sig:

http://brochures.slosh.com/

-- A
 
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Apparently scanners and software have improved in the last 20 years. Who knew :doah: The sheet feeder alone is worth it, just zips through the big stacks like those stupid trailering guides...

-- A
 
I was just wondering the other day if some of your early brochures could be updated to higher resolution images. Thanks a lot for maintaining and updating this project of yours!
 
Awesome! Thank you! I’ve gone thru those brochures countless times for info. Tremendous resource.
 
This is so awesome! I use the page very often to correct bad information!!!
 
strong work! I use that resource frequently at work and at home for myself. Thanks for taking your time to keep it up and making it better!
 
Thanks guys! I figure once every decade it deserves dusting off. Still a bit overwhelming, as 90% of the paperwork can be run through the autofeeder ... and then the other 10%, the oversize ones, I have to manually scan a half-page at a time, stitch together, OCR, convert, etc. Lather, rinse, repeat.

I figure it'll take the same amount of time for the 10% as it does for the 90%. Good winter project, right? :)

-- A
 
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