Better indexing on bitsavers

der Mouse mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA
Thu May 19 19:02:34 CDT 2005


> PDF is terrible way to package the documents.  It's just better than
> any other practical method ;-)

> So many talk about ASCII being the only "right way", as Al can attest
> to time and accuracy makes image oriented PDF's the way to go.

> Finding errors in OCR'ed files is extremely time consuming.

Those (OCRed plain text and PDF files) are not the only options.

As I remarked a minute ago, I'd far rather have a tar (or a zip, or a
directory on an FTP server) containing TIFF files than a PDF containing
the same TIFF files.

/~\ The ASCII				der Mouse
\ / Ribbon Campaign
 X  Against HTML	       mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca
/ \ Email!	     7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39  4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B


More information about the cctalk mailing list