Question about PDF manipulation

[Eric Smith]

Bjørn wrote:
> Thus, those who scan things (a task I really appreciate a lot) do not
> spend valuable time making the results less accessible, and it will be
> easy to OCR the images later on.
>
> My point is that a pure bitmap is both easier to make and more useable
> than an Acrobat document, both for archival purposes and for further work.

I disagree.  It's not particularly difficult to pull the bitmaps back
out of a PDF document and convert them into whatever fromat you like.
For instance, the pdfimages program that is part of the free xpdf
software can do it, and there are many Windows utilities as well.

Eric