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VIN CD Available For Download

Started by DanWA , Dec 23 2008 09:34 PM

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#1 DanWA

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Posted 23 December 2008 - 09:34 PM

Have uploaded a copy of the VIN CD to the internet for everyone.

It is in TIF format so you'll need an appropriate viewer to look through the pages.

If you want to search it you'll need to convert to OCR-PDF.

Me and Josh will be working on getting it all into an online database to make it searchable online.

The other files there are random stuff that came on the CD like placement of GTR badge etc.

Click here to go to the download area.

Can this be made a sticky?

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#2 GML-31

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Posted 23 December 2008 - 10:39 PM

if only there was a LH/X one....

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#3 _@milco@_

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Posted 23 December 2008 - 10:56 PM

downloaded nice one bro

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#4 _73LJWhiteSL_

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Posted 23 December 2008 - 11:25 PM

Thanks heaps mate. Downloading now. :spoton:

Steve

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#5 _OtG_

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Posted 24 December 2008 - 03:03 PM

I hope nobody minds...

But I have converted those files to .pdf format and made them searchable through the magic of OCR. I've also zipped them up into one archive so that it's a bit easier for people to grab them all in one hit.

You can get them from here (please note it's still uploading. Give it about 2 hours, ie about 6pm eastern daylight savings time before trying to grab it - I am only posting now as I'm about to head out for the family Christmas thing and won't be online again for a day or two).

Also please note due to the poor quality of the source documents the character recognition isn't perfect... but it's better than nothing... at least converting to .pdf might make it easier for those less computer savvy to open them as it's a more commonly used format.

Hope this was okay for me to mirror them like this, if there is any issues let me know and I'll pull 'em down.

Cheers and merry Christmas

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#6 _Skapinad_

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Posted 24 December 2008 - 03:37 PM

hey mate, I tried converting to searchable formats, but as you said the source document is too poor..... it really ends up being quite useless, unless of course you have a better copy than I do...

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#7 DanWA

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Posted 24 December 2008 - 04:09 PM

Yeah i've had the same issues with OCR.

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#8 _CraigA_

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Posted 24 December 2008 - 04:30 PM

Looks like a few of us have tried with the same average results.

I had a go with various applications and settings but on the scanned copy that I have there is too much 'noise' in the document to provide useful results.

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#9 LC69GTR

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Posted 24 December 2008 - 06:26 PM

Here is something i was doing in Excel format not the vins but various other details.
Click on the tabs down the bottom of the spread sheet Torana Details

Edited by LC69GTR, 24 December 2008 - 06:26 PM.

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#10 dattoman

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Posted 24 December 2008 - 06:41 PM

This won't cause anymore copywrite issues will it >?

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#11 _Yella SLuR_

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Posted 24 December 2008 - 07:42 PM

The thing to do would be to enter them into an Access or equal database so you could search any feature you wanted, i.e. not limited to just the VIN as a search. I'll see how I go during the holidays.

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#12 DanWA

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Posted 24 December 2008 - 09:52 PM

The is no copyright on the details from back then...

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#13 _4door_LJ_

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Posted 25 December 2008 - 11:30 PM

Dunno about the copyright thing but it'll p!ss off the ones selling the cd's for $10 lol :clap:

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#14 DanWA

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Posted 29 December 2008 - 07:28 AM

Its ok i think they've made enough money off burning cd's.

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#15 _vin150cars_

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Posted 29 December 2008 - 02:40 PM

thanks OTG works real good with vista
and useing adobe reader 9
very good cheers

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#16 _PRO-192_

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Posted 10 January 2009 - 01:00 AM

can i find the relevant info out by doing a chassis number search guys?? or how do i find out if the chassis number was released as a gtr or xu1 number??

cheers