Improved R32 GT-R Workshop Manual

[lwells]

Hi All,

I have been trying to make some improvements to the R32 GT-R Workshop Manual PDF that's floating around as I find its pretty unusable in digital form.

Anyway, after a couple of hours work I give you the improved workshop manual with rather complete bookmarks (make sure you open the bookmark tab in Acrobat)

Download the Zipped PDF (~21Mb)

Mirror by Amaru: http://gtr.infinite.net.au/lw_gtr_32_servi...vice_manual.zip

Not sure how long I can keep it available as it will depend on bandwidth. If others want to host mirrors, that would be great.

Let me know if you find any mistakes and I will try and fix them ASAP and reupload.

Cheers,

Lucien.

[Beer Baron]

you are a good man Luncien. Most people are happy to pirate the manual and sell copies on the net.

nice one mate

[sav man]

is there any software around to traslate the picture to text? like you can do if you scan a document.

[paulR32gtr]

You wont be able to get it to text without OCR software - and whether the text matches is a completely different story...

Well done Lucien - definately easier to use!!

[lang]

champion!

[lwells]

is there any software around to traslate the picture to text? like you can do if you scan a document.

The problem is that, unfortunately, the manual was scanned as a series of images rather than using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) which would have made all the text portions appear as just that, text. As a side bonus, that would mean the text is searchable, selectable, copyable, etc etc.

I just tested exporting the PDF to image and running it through some OCR software. It seems to work OK, but will take a considerable amount of time to process. I will have a fiddle and see what I can do.

Richiarid No problems.

Lucien.

[Amaru]

I have mirrored it at http://gtr.infinite.net.au/lw_gtr_32_servi...vice_manual.zip

[Godzilla32]

nice work mate

[funkymonkey]

good work Lucien... wonder how long before this edition shows up on Ebay?

[confuzion]

good stuff dude thanks for that heaps better!

[kksh]

awesome! thanks dude. You the man!

[Jase]

thanks for this Lucien - some guy here on SAU tried to sell me the older version of this workshop manual for $100 a year ago

[lwells]

Hi Guys,

Your all very welcome. I hope you find it useful. Its nice to give something back (that people appreciate ) to the community that's given me so much :grouphug:

Anyhoo, after trying to latest version of OmniPage (and OCR package) it seems it can import directly from PDF. I have experimented with it a little and it will still be quite an effort to swap it over from images to text, but give me a little time and I will see what I can do.

Lucien.

[lwells]

I don't suppose anyone here is a typesetter or particularly good at picking fonts? Any guesses on what font(s) is/are used in the workshop manual?

LW.

[66 skyline gt]

nice job matey....... it has help me out a hell of alot with my rb conversion in my 66 gt........ much appreciated .... good to see some decent people out there!

cheers....

[lwells]

Ok,

I have spent the better part of the day trying to process the workshop manual with OmniPage. I have managed to get 100 pages done (so approximately 1/8th of the manual):

I would be interested to see if people think having text and images (rather than just a series of images) is useful -- ie. the text is now fully searchable. If you have a minute, feel free to download the 100 page "sample" and have a play with it. If people think its worthwhile, I will keep going and try and do the lot.

Sample is here (~9.5Mb): http://ugbox.net/~lance/OCAU/lw/R32_WM_Rev2_Test.zip

[Duncan]

fark! champion lucien! you are sorting the two biggest headaches of my life atm

now if you could throw the engine back in the race car as well

[lwells]

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

LW.

[R32_GTR]

Absolute Cahmpion. This would be awsome man.

[pentae]

Lucien, I think that if you put 8 days worth of work into turning this manual into text, I strongly believe you should somehow charge for it in some capacity.

I would feel right paying for that.