Not every Judge has survived so to use the PHS docs that are out there would not be a 100% accurate count, although a start. I have spoken to Jim M regarding software that can covert the microfilm to a digital format. You then need to index it and make the data searcheable by option codes and VIn numbers, paint codes etc. It would be very time consuming with most of the work being done at the programming/ indexing level. Remember the sequence of options or their position on the document is not always in the same place. Paint codes and VIN's are in the same place. The OCR engine needs to be very robust and be able to do key word searches( codes ) to do this. It can be done, but remember GM owns these documents and they may not allow this to happen. Although it would take me a lot of time I would be willing to take PHS docs of Judges that are presently owned by collectors and put them into a data base. I would be willing to sign a confidentiality agreement that only color codes and option code breakdowns be released. No VIN or ownership data would ever be released and ownership data would be destroyed after the data has been processed. We could then breakdown the statistics to what has survived. Just a thought.
