Re: Xy3 - reference manuals

[David Auerbach auerbach@xxxxxxxx]

I habitually download PDFs from journals and archive sites. These days  
they mostly are already textified (as in that now golden oldie, "I  
just want to textify") but some aren't, particularly older ones (like  
Russell's 1905 "On Denoting"; Mind just did a centenary issue on it.)   
My version of Acrobat Pro happily scans them (wholesale). As far as I  
can tell it *displays* the image, but the text is now searchable. With  
printed matter like that I've simply never caught it in an error  
(which doesn't mean it doesn't make any).
 (It isn't brilliant with some mathematical notation, but that  
doesn't alter the appearance, just the searchability. )


It will also look for URLs and linkify them. I imagine that other  
linking will needs hand doing via its bookmark feature.



David Auerbach
Department of Philosophy & Religion
Box 8103
NCSU
Raleigh, NC  27695-8103


On Jul 15, at 2:29 PM, flash wrote:

> Myron,
>
> ≪Scan-to-pdf programs start with an image file and then run an OCR
> routine on the image to produce a PDF that contains searchable text.
> Acrobat does this. If you don't run the OCR part of the process, you  
> end
>
> up with pure image files.≫
>
> I have scanned from Acrobat 5.0 full version (not Reader) and all I  
> get
>
> is an image file, noneditable and nonsearchable. The OCR routine
> appears, as you described, in version 6.0, but is a multi-mouse-click
> process for each page. It is extremely tedious (without even
> proofreading); I don't want to do this for several hundred pages of  
> text.