Something like two and a half years ago, I got a copy of EL-00032-00-decStd32_Jan90.pdf, a one-image-per-page scan of a paper copy of the VAX Architecture Reference Manual. I don't know where I got it, but bitsavers has a file of the same name with the same MD5 checksum at /pdf/dec/vax/archSpec/EL-00032-00-decStd32_Jan90.pdf now, so it likely was there.
I played with trying to build character-recognition software to convert it to text and eventually decided it would be quicker and easier to do it myself. I've just finished that. (I'm not sure whether it actually was quicker or easier....) The result is available from ftp.rodents-montreal.org in /mouse/docs/DEC/VARM/EL-00032-00-decStd32_Jan90.txt for anyone who would care to grab a copy. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B