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.
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