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Anonymous 03/11/15 (Wed) 18:46:31 caac82 No.906

Urbex thread. Where can I find this?

Anonymous 03/20/15 (Fri) 23:13:41 dd5feb No.962

Relevant to my interests.

Anonymous 03/23/15 (Mon) 17:41:34 1c2ba0 No.978

Anything urban exploration please.

Anonymous 04/19/15 (Sun) 10:05:46 fe21dd No.1181

bump

Anonymous 04/21/15 (Tue) 21:37:31 6b7ad6 No.1208

bump

Anonymous 04/23/15 (Thu) 02:53:22 e748de No.1214

p good book, i own a copy of it

Anonymous 04/27/15 (Mon) 01:02:09 f090e2 No.1264

Ninjalicious died ten years ago. Not sure if the book is still sold.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjalicious

Most of it is here anyway:

http://infiltration.org/

I've used his book.

http://www.torarchcons.org/jeff.html

Anonymous 05/08/15 (Fri) 22:00:01 ce6d82 No.1348

Bumping

Anonymous 06/13/15 (Sat) 18:29:04 ce6d82 No.1683

I'm still interested in this book.

Anonymous 06/14/15 (Sun) 06:35:09 1e0174 No.1688

I have a copy of this book, and have been interested in making an ebook version seeing as I couldn't find one. I'll look into converting it for you, anon. It's a wonderful read.

Probably stupid question, but do I just slice the pages apart and scan, or can I take it down to a copy store and have them do it?

Anonymous 06/14/15 (Sun) 20:41:43 6719ba No.1693

Tried a quick scan today, didn't end up too well, I'll look try to debind the book in the next couple days here.

Anonymous 06/16/15 (Tue) 04:34:51 6d1916 No.1697

Thank you anon.

Anonymous 06/17/15 (Wed) 00:37:49 f4cac2 No.1709

was planning on uploading a test to see if the quality was okay for the first 50 pages or so, but even that, which is only 1/6th of the book, I was able to get down to no less than 18mb as a PDF. I've tried my luck with google over the last few hours but not sure what I'm doing wrong with converting, there are much longer books on here that are much smaller, if anyone has any advice I can finish this book finally.

Anonymous 06/17/15 (Wed) 06:11:01 6719ba No.1713

File: 1434521461655.pdf (561.32 KB, test.pdf)

scratch that, I've tried something else that worked a bit better, looks like final book size will be somewhere around 1mb now.

Here's a sample (the first 90 pages). This is the first time I've done this, so before I dump an entire night into the full 200 something pages, if you had any feedback it will save me some time down the road if I need to change something major.

notes:

I know it feels tight, I can fix the cropping for the final version

If the lines of text overlapping a little bit is really annoying, I can fix that too (I think)

I know the graph in the first section is a little bit messed up, I'll fix it

The images already looked like that

If someone is reading this and is more experienced than me, and wants to have a go at it, I can just upload the raw scans of the pages somewhere, too, but I'll try to squeeze out at least a functional, usable version of the book in the meantime.

Anonymous 06/17/15 (Wed) 07:30:45 6719ba No.1714

File: 1434526245245.pdf (568.82 KB, test2.pdf)

I noticed the pages are a little more fucked in that version than I thought, this one is a little better. Still same request for feedback

Anonymous 06/18/15 (Thu) 04:16:39 cf4cab No.1722

had more time today than I thought I would, so here's a working complete copy, I know the timeline is fucked, I'll work on the details a little more tomorrow hopefully, but everything should be here. Should I include front and back cover scans?

Anonymous 06/18/15 (Thu) 04:17:34 cf4cab No.1723

File: 1434601055138.pdf (2.22 MB, Access_All_Areas.pdf)

>1722

>forget the file

Anonymous 06/20/15 (Sat) 02:39:54 49a791 No.1736

Seems good from my skimming. Thanks kind anon

Anonymous 06/20/15 (Sat) 20:37:09 ce6d82 No.1741

File: 1434832629145.jpg (8.98 KB, 480x360, 4:3, 0.jpg)

I just got it off of

http://8ch.net/urbex/res/698.html

and came to give the good news.

If you're the same Anon who posted this there, thank you so much, I can't wait to read this.

If you're not, thank you for your efforts regardless.

Anonymous 06/21/15 (Sun) 00:52:24 96c61b No.1743

>If someone is reading this and is more experienced than me

This is one thing I've always found lacking on this board, there is ample resources for downloading pdfs but nothing for making them. There's no recommended software or tutorials.

For a board that calls itself /pdfs/ it's a major part that's missing. Some people will come here just for help with PDF making or editing and notice that it's just an archiving and link sharing board.

Anonymous 06/21/15 (Sun) 04:30:41 69ac1e No.1746

To be fair, in my case it wasn't especially easy, although I did find a few things, such as set ups like this:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/02/diy-book-scanning-is-easier-than-you-think/

Combined with a decent camera, and decent OCR software, you could conceivably do much better. Hell, I bet even an iphone on a mount and a page-turner like that could have cut the time in half. Also, in this case I just got lucky that someone was already requesting the niche hobby book that I happened to own. I'd bet in the case of other niche books, the demand isn't readily available enough to warrant the several hours of work it takes to scan a book, unless you're feeling super altruistic, as well as patient.

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