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  • Category: Mathematics
  • Founded: Dec 21, 1998
  • Language: English
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The International Slide Rule Group "ISRG" is devoted to collectors of slide rules and associated mechanical calculating instruments.


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If you are serious about slide rule collecting, it is highly recommended that you consider joining The Oughtred Society.




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Cyril Catt  -  Andrew Davie  -  Gary Flom  -  Craig Kielhofer  -  Jerome Mc Kenna


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Re: free OCR programs, a recommendation (4081 manual)
Mike, see http://www.freeocr.net/ which is where Google sent me for FreeOCR. That page redirects to the PaperFile FreeOCR page, which says explicitly it is
Posted - Sun Mar 21, 2010 9:50 pm
Vince Tessier
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Re: free OCR programs, a recommendation (4081 manual)
... Sounds like our backgrounds are similar! The trick I've used to avoid getting too deep into html is to write the document using LaTeX, and then use the
Posted - Sun Mar 21, 2010 9:48 pm
Mike Markowski
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Re: free OCR programs, a recommendation (4081 manual)
Vince, I don't have experience with FreeOCR, but I've had very good experiences with Tesseract. It's also a free OCR program. I was emailed scans of a very
Posted - Sun Mar 21, 2010 3:40 pm
Mike Markowski
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free OCR programs, a recommendation (4081 manual)
I'm OCRing (?) the K&E 4081 manual, based on the Greg's (who's Greg, group?) images at http://sliderule.ozmanor.com/man/man-download.html This is the 1955
Posted - Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:27 am
Vince Tessier
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Re: slide-rule.4th --- S-T and P
As noted, the P scale can be a big help for large or small angles, but it's rare on American rules. Many (probably most, but I can't be sure) early American
Posted - Sun Mar 21, 2010 2:54 am
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