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who needs some cash?

i have shop manuals needing scanned.
ill guess there are all in total about 3000 pages.  That is probably a high estimation.

My son wants a TC,,, i love my coug,, my other youngest is getting turned on the the Tbird look,,,,,,,,

so for thier sake,, id like to make this stuff go soft copy.  Pack away the books and put em back on the shelf in the garage to pull out when the computer aint available.

an example of the type of scans would be like whats posted here on a cruise control problem.

http://www.foxtbirdcougarforums.com/showthread.php?t=14879

who needs some cash?

Reply #1 –
how does this make me any money?
RIP 1988 and 1990 Lincoln Mark VII LSC
I welcomed the dark side and currently am driving a 2000 Dodge Durango SLT plus, with a 5.9, Code named project "Night Runner"
Shes black on black, fully loaded, with headers, 180 tstat, e fan, straight exhaust into a cherry bomb vortex ler, full tune up, ported intake and T/B, MSD coil, and round aircleaner.
Mods to come: Fully rebuilt and heavily modded 46RE, and a richmond rachet locker.
my $300 beater ;)
R.I.P Kayleigh Raposa 12/18/90 - 2/24/07

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Reply #2 –
thats a lot of scanning
93 Festiva L, 193k miles, BP+T/G25MR swap, T3 50trim .48/.42, SRT FMIC, Capri electronics/Rocketchip, 2.5" exhaust
bests: ET 12.86, MPH 110.25, 1.92 short
02 Subaru Impreza WRX, 129k miles
97 Subaru Impreza Outback Sport, 236k miles

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Reply #3 –
OOO i see now you want someone to scan it all? Thats gonna takle up a ton of computer memory. to bad im not gonna be here in west virgina longer i might do it, but i only have 2 weeks left
RIP 1988 and 1990 Lincoln Mark VII LSC
I welcomed the dark side and currently am driving a 2000 Dodge Durango SLT plus, with a 5.9, Code named project "Night Runner"
Shes black on black, fully loaded, with headers, 180 tstat, e fan, straight exhaust into a cherry bomb vortex ler, full tune up, ported intake and T/B, MSD coil, and round aircleaner.
Mods to come: Fully rebuilt and heavily modded 46RE, and a richmond rachet locker.
my $300 beater ;)
R.I.P Kayleigh Raposa 12/18/90 - 2/24/07

who needs some cash?

Reply #4 –
I think he wants it scanned to disk.Yeh that is a lot of scanning.
Old Grey Cat to this.88 Cat, 5.0 HO, CW mounts, mass air, CI custom cam, afr165's, Tmoss worked cobra intake, BBK shorty's,off road h pipe, magnaflow ex. T-5,spec stage 2 clutch, 8.8 373 TC trac loc, che ajustables with bullits on the rear. 11" brakes up front. +

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Reply #5 –
To Bad I don't have a scanner anymore, I would do it.
1987 Cougar XR7 5.0 SOLD
1992 Ranger 4.0
2018 Hyundai Elantra
2019 Ram Rebel

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Reply #6 –
Quote from: daboss351;165266
OOO i see now you want someone to scan it all? Thats gonna takle up a ton of computer memory. to bad im not gonna be here in west virgina longer i might do it, but i only have 2 weeks left


i thought you said west c00ch. lol. i read it too fast. :hick:
:cougarsmily:5.0 HO, E303 cam, Exploder/Cobra intake, smog pump delete, Ford Taurus electric fan, MAF conversion, BBK headers, MAC 2.5" off-road exhaust w/x-pipe, AOD w/shift kit, 8.8 Trac-Loc rear w/disc brakes, 5-lug conversion w/'98 Mustang GT 17" wheels, Mach 1 springs:cougarsmily:

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Reply #7 –
well,,, my first of several books measure up as follows.

micrometer says that 100 physical pages mic out to be .200'' thick.
the whole manual mics out at 1.500'' thick.

this means

100 physical pages = pages 1-200
overall pages estimated front and back are 1500.

so if your lucky enough to spend 1 minute on each page,, that is 25 man hours on this one book.  Im thinking more like 35 hours to factor in oh shiznit moments and opps i gotta rescan that one,, which will likely happen about every  4 page there abouts.

so a full work week just for one manual at an hourly rate or an agreed bid amount.

is there another technology available and affordable for scanning like a wand or something so one can just flip pages and wave a wand over the text?

I want the pages to be .jpg at or about 124k per page.

this survey accounts for three manuals about the same thickness.  there are two others that measure out half as thick and a sales brosure for a tbird in landscape format full color.

so,, about 6000 pages of suff to scan,,,,,,,wheeewwwww

i wonder if ford has this stuff archived in pdf or some other medium.

who needs some cash?

Reply #8 –
Like I said if I had a scanner, I would do it. It sounds like fun. Of course I am weird like that.
1987 Cougar XR7 5.0 SOLD
1992 Ranger 4.0
2018 Hyundai Elantra
2019 Ram Rebel

who needs some cash?

Reply #9 –
My buddy wants to do it, how much?