Nelsonic Zelda Watch Manual in PDF form

[FTen]

I got this watch the other day and made the manual into a pretty searchable PDF. I cleaned up some of the grammar a slight bit (read that as in the sentence was missing a "the" etc), but that’s about it. My donation to the community.

www.fathertom.net/ft/zeldawatch.pdf

I can do this with any type of scanned image, if anyone has any handheld manuals they would like in searchable PDF form.

-FTen

[Rik]

Did you just have to re-type all the text by hand, or did you use some kind of OCR to do that? I've thought about doing that on some of my manual creations more to clean up the text than for searchability (most of the manuals are kind of small, so I never really felt it was necessary, but it does look nicer). Especially the manuals that are all text anyway, almost seems pointless to use scans...

I tend to do 5-10 of them at a time, so it's just faster to scan, do slight cleaning and create PDFs... What I hate is that it's almost impossible to find a manual that's actually cut straight, so the scans always come out slightly angled... If it bothers me, I have to fiddle with each page to get them straight (I scan in 2-bit B&W, so I can't rotate them in Photoshop...).

If you don't mind, I'll add the Zelda manual to the website...

If anyone has manuals that aren't on the website and want to lend them to me for scanning/PDF creation, please let me know. I'm always willing to add more. (I have a request for Tomy's 3D Jungle Fighter, anyone have that manual? I thought I had a scan of it somewhere but can't seem to find it...)

Rik

[FTen]

I scanned it, then used an OCR program on it. I did clean it up a little bit, but really didn't have to do that much. I used an OCR program called Readiris to do it.
Feel free to put that pdf on the main website and if you want or need any help with OCR manuals scans, I can help.
-FTen