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May 29, 2009 07:44:22am |
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Re: A little p.s. about Google scans of post-1922 journals |
Thanks for the tip. It should theoretically be possible to automate the process - turning the page, screen shot, build PDF with cropping - with scripting tools.
BTW my understanding is the magazine publishers have an add revenue sharing agreement with Google. Basically, PopMech has a free place to put its back archives online and make a little money to boot. Who would pay for 10 year old copies of PopMech so this gives them some benefit without much effort.
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May 29, 2009 09:59:48pm |
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I forgot to mention, I paste screen shots into my photo editor, where I do the cropping, then each shot goes into MS Word where I can drag each picture box to size it, and line up with earlier pictures, finally I print to a PDF file using CutePDF writer.
Thanks for the info on PM and PS. But is the agreement time limited? Once PM and PS see the demand, not for downloading whole issues, for on a item by item research basis, they might expect more money, and don't forget, Google is about making money, not about providing a free public service. They are only just beginning to explore the money making possibilities of the WWW.
I have a number of issues going back to the '30s, having access to all of the issues, is useful to me, because in the past, labour was cheap, so the way things were done in those days, would be useful today, to hobbyists without much money, but lots of spare time.
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May 30, 2009 05:12:13am |
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Time traveler,
Yes I have some older issues that I picked up on ebay, will be scanning them in now. Matbe we all should start scanning what we have and placing the scans into the Internet Archive.
Gerry
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May 30, 2009 06:25:23pm |
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Is that legal if Google has them tied up?
Most of mine are without covers, I bought them used in the early '70s.
Maybe grab missing covers off Google?
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May 30, 2009 08:23:30pm |
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Time traveler,
I work for a library consortium and am very familiar with this are of the copyright law. Regardless of what Google orthe publisher may think, there was no renewal on these items and they are in the public domain. These issues can be put up without the covers as they ca be added later. I am planning on putting up many scifi pulps which are in the public domain, some without covers, which I will add later, this is fine especially if all of the pages are intact.
Gerry
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May 30, 2009 10:26:08pm |
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Thanks Gerry,
Seeing I got a scanner, I will give it a go with my old stuff, as for your SiFi stuff, I will look forward to it.
TT
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May 29, 2009 11:05:47am |
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"Thanks for the tip. It should theoretically be possible to automate the process - turning the page, screen shot, build PDF with cropping - with scripting tools."
Try opening the pages in tabs and using ImageMagick's import tool. This script will generate 10 PNG images in Linux:
# Assign a unique file name
screenshot='screenshot';
nano=`date '+%d%b%y-%N'`;
extension='.png';
file="$HOME/Desktop/screen/$screenshot-$nano$extension";
# Take the screenshots
import -snaps 10 -pause 5 $file;
Import will capture the full window on a click, or just the selection. "pause" is the time, in seconds, between captures. From there, it should be as simple as inserting the images in a PDF editor.
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