Date:         Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:13:58 -0700
Reply-To:     Jim Heissenbuttel <jim@HEISSENBUTTEL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jim Heissenbuttel <jim@HEISSENBUTTEL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon - "Introductory Service Information"
In-Reply-To:  <AF87A44E-D767-11D8-93AA-000A95E94AAC@uvic.ca>
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Finally! Something within my realm of expertise. I can finally give
some information back to the list.

The best way (if you have time) would be to scan this to a PDF. There
are two options for doing this.

The first way is to simply incorporate the scanned images  into a
single PDF file. Not a bad idea, and aside from the scanning, not a lot
of work. If you have access to an automated document scanner, even
better.

The second way, should you choose to do this, is to run it through
Acrobat's OCR (optical character recognition) engine and create a
searchable, indexable PDF. This is nice because, if you wish to search
for a particular phrase, you can.

Some scanners come with software that will help with the automation of
the scanning OCR steps. Since I do not know what you have access to, it
s difficult to go beyond what I have already suggested.

Hope this helps.

jh
83.5 WBX Westy
On Jul 16, 2004, at 1:35 PM, Alistair Bell wrote:

> I'll host the scans if you like.
>
> alistair
>
> '82 westy, diesel converted to gas in '94
>
> http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/
>
> On 16-Jul-04, at 12:21 PM, Dan Wohlers wrote:
>
>> Hi Volks,
>>
>> I ran across an ebay auction a week or so ago for a "Water Cooled
>> Vanagon Introductory Service Information" manual from 1983.  I won the
>> auction not knowing what it really was and just received it today.  It
>> is a 44 page book that VW sent out for "corporate service training".
>> It has a wealth of information, from HP/torque curves to diagrams of
>> the engine, cooling system, fuel injection, exhaust, etc. along with
>> specs.  It pertains to the 1.9L digi-Jet.  I have been looking for
>> info
>> like this ever since I purchased my van almost a year ago.  I would
>> love to share this with the list but I am not sure how.  I have access
>> to a scanner and I could e-mail the pages to someone to post on the
>> net
>> somewhere (I don't have my own web page), or I could make a copy and
>> send it out to people who want it (send me a Self addressed stamped
>> envelope?).  What do you guys think?  (Are there any copyright issues
>> that I should be aware of?)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dan Wohlers
>> Iowa City, Iowa
>>
>>
>>
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