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I dunno, as much as I feel that you should get some reward for this work, it is still copyrighted material, so charging for it might not be a good idea.

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I agree with Shan: I don't think charging for it would be appropriate. As long as people get some use out of it, I'm happy.

I have almost finished the first 300 pages. Its taking about a day per 50-100 pages, so hopefully by the end of the week I will have a 'first draft' done. It will need some editing to make it pretty again, but that's a lot easier.

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I agree with Shan:  I don't think charging for it would be appropriate.  As long as people get some use out of it, I'm happy.

I have almost finished the first 300 pages.  Its taking about a day per 50-100 pages, so hopefully by the end of the week I will have a 'first draft' done.  It will need some editing to make it pretty again, but that's a lot easier.

Lucien.

Very nice work i have been looking for a copy for ages let us know when u get the new one up please....

AWSOME JUST AWSOME

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Duncan: so I take it you would find search-ability useful?  

LW.

absolutely brilliant.

we use it all the time, paper and electronic copy, and it is a really poor manual.

Compared to other workshop manuals it is really light on (yes at 800 pages still not long enough) and poorly laid out.

The second point is what pisses me off, and why searchability would be great. Today's example.....clutch bolt torque and flywheel bolt torque are a good 300 pages apart :)

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Up to about page 330 now: hopefully finish tonight at about 350-ish. Doing about 50 pages a day at the moment, but that might slow a bit over the week as I have other commitments.

Duncan: Good-o.

There will still be a few problems with searchability:

1) I am doing most of the tables of data as images because their layout gets screwed otherwise. However, the headings for the tables are text. When/if I have time, I might go back and redo the tables as text (but its a fiddly job).

2) If paragraphs include images -- like "1" or "A" within a circle -- I have to do that paragraph as an image because there is no other way to preserve the special characters.

Most everything else (except, obviously, for the pictures/diagrams) will be searchable.

Lucien.

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Euncan... i've got the japanese service manual, and its a lot more comprehensive... albeit in a different language. However the diagrams and charts are fairly easy to follow and if you have a english manual to backreference it to, it should make it a LOT easier to use... I'll bring a copy to sydney when I come up for the weekend, and if you want a copy feel free to grab a copy off me then.

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lwells Grand Master

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Just so people know, I haven't forgotten about this: I have just been so busy of late I haven't had time to even look at it, so I am still only half way through. In about a months time I hope to have a little more time to devote to it. Have faith, I will get it done eventually :(

Lucien.

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I found that Acrobat 7.0 pro works great for OCR, it went throught the service manual in about 10 mins, and set it all up. If you have somewhere to host it I can upload it for you.

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sav man: Yeah, I noticed the OCR facility in Acrobat 7. It seems quite good though I haven't checked how it deals with some of the funkier formating. I still intend to finish the OCR'ing of the workshop manual the way I was doing it as I am slowly cleaning the pages up too. I've got about 7 weeks till my thesis is due and then I should have a lot more time :D

nxtime: I would always encourage people to donate to SAU or join the club(s). Given the grey area that exists around the manual I'm not sure requiring people to pay would be a good idea.

homerz: Its bound to be exactly the same one.

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