Re: Scanning incomplete and updated documents

2020-04-17 Thread Frank McConnell via cctalk
On Apr 17, 2020, at 9:02, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: > As I noted, the two sets of appendices are mostly completely different. There > are 9 appendices that look like they are from the primary document and 5 that > look like they are from inserted pages. Both sets start numbering from "A". > T

Re: Scanning incomplete and updated documents

2020-04-17 Thread J. David Bryan via cctalk
On Friday, April 17, 2020 at 9:02, Alan Perry via cctech wrote: > But the really interesting thing is that the copyright date on the > "primary" document is AFTER the date in the footers of the "inserted" > pages. Sometimes an update contains a replacement title page (containing the update date

Re: Scanning incomplete and updated documents

2020-04-17 Thread J. David Bryan via cctalk
On Friday, April 17, 2020 at 18:06, Antonio Carlini via cctech wrote: > pdftk works well for managing pages and PDFs. I'll second that. It's been invaluable for combining PDFs (such as when a supplier insists on delivering its general catalog in individual sections), as well as extracting subs

Re: Scanning incomplete and updated documents

2020-04-17 Thread J. David Bryan via cctalk
On Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 23:53, Frank McConnell wrote: > The folks who did the 3000 manuals didn´t do that very often. What we > got were almost always update packets that simply replaced pages in > their manuals. To be fair, the 1000 (DSD) manuals were updated by replacement pages also. W

Re: Scanning incomplete and updated documents

2020-04-17 Thread Antonio Carlini via cctalk
On 17/04/2020 17:02, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: Looking at the document, my case looks more interesting. As I noted, the two sets of appendices are mostly completely different. There are 9 appendices that look like they are from the primary document and 5 that look like they are from insert

Re: Scanning incomplete and updated documents

2020-04-17 Thread Alan Perry via cctalk
On 4/16/20 9:32 PM, J. David Bryan via cctech wrote: On Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 8:52, Alan Perry via cctech wrote: Should I create two different pdfs with different appendix sections or create a single pdf with both sets? Where both old and new pages were present, and where they c

Re: Scanning incomplete and updated documents

2020-04-17 Thread J. David Bryan via cctalk
On Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 23:18, Frank McConnell wrote: > Sometimes I have come across shrink-wrapped manuals and later updates, > and scanned them as found. I wouldn´t want to deny other people the > opportunity to apply updates to manuals, you know? Oh yes, especially the ones that would

Re: Scanning incomplete and updated documents

2020-04-17 Thread Frank McConnell via cctalk
On Apr 16, 2020, at 21:32, J. David Bryan via cctech wrote: > > On Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 8:52, Alan Perry via cctech wrote: > >> 1. One document is a software installation manual in a loose leaf >> binder with other documents. It has a title page, tables of contents, >> etc., several chapte

Re: Scanning incomplete and updated documents

2020-04-17 Thread Frank McConnell via cctalk
On Apr 16, 2020, at 23:37, J. David Bryan wrote: > On Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 23:18, Frank McConnell wrote: > >> Sometimes I have come across shrink-wrapped manuals and later updates, >> and scanned them as found. I wouldn´t want to deny other people the >> opportunity to apply updates to man

Re: Scanning incomplete and updated documents

2020-04-16 Thread J. David Bryan via cctalk
On Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 8:52, Alan Perry via cctech wrote: > 1. One document is a software installation manual in a loose leaf > binder with other documents. It has a title page, tables of contents, > etc., several chapters, and then it gets interesting. It has several > appendix sections (

Scanning incomplete and updated documents

2020-04-16 Thread Alan Perry via cctalk
I recently received a bunch of hardware/software documents to scan. I am only roughly familiar with the systems covered by the docs. I have encountered a couple situations that I would like guidance on. 1. One document is a software installation manual in a loose leaf binder with other docu