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February, 1942 Army Motors now available online

PostPosted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 7:33 pm
by deadline
This issue was sent to me by a fellow Army Motors collector.

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This one was a little tougher as I needed to write a script to batch process the page splitting and the removal or white space on the left AND bottom. Was pretty cool once the script ran and chewed everything up.

This will be the last of the AM's for a while. I need to read them and also I need to reorganize the AM page.. its a PITA to add an issue due to the table format.

Re: February, 1942 Army Motors now available online

PostPosted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 10:55 am
by retro-roco
If you're going to re-do the page, adding names to each cover would be nice. I can't read the issue onth or year (tired old eyes I guess). The thumbnails could even be smaller, if each had a text description of month and year. Thanks for posting these! I had several of the ones you just posted, but that source posted them as two pages wide instead of individual pages...

Re: February, 1942 Army Motors now available online

PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 6:44 am
by pfarber
You supposed to commit the cover and publication date to memory. :P :P

They are the same issues that were posted to the radionerds web site. I don't like the two page per screen format either, that's why I spend the time to split them and remove the boarders. With a 11x17 scanner its SUPER EASY to just lay the open magazine on the glass and scan, but then you need to post process them. Most of the issues I have left need scanning, so they will be a while. I may OCR the issues and create a searchable index (like the TM9-801 and TM10-1562) but that's for another day... I need to renovate my kitchen, sell my jeep, complete the G506.....

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