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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Busby scan (Was: Feet wet?)
Yes.
See:
http://www.pdf995.com/
Jay.
Warren Greenway
<opensourcesub@yahoo.com> To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
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owner-personal_submersible Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Busby scan (Was: Feet wet?)
s@psubs.org
24/10/2003 10:12 AM
Please respond to
personal_submersibles
Speaking of this, does anyone know of a
free/opensource
PDF maker? It really sucks having to pay nearly $1000
for Acrobat professional just to make PDFs.
Warren.
--- jbarlow@bjservices.ca wrote:
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> Does Acrobat contain OCR? There web site as per the
> link that someone else
> put up here seems to state that.
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> To "create searchable text from scans" seems to
> imply that?
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> Jari Siikarla
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> 23/10/2003 12:21 AM
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> At 18:29 22.10.2003 -0600, you wrote:
> >Oh, that sounds great!!!! I thought that you would
> get a scanned picture
> >of text, not actually searchable words.
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> I agree that the best way would be to scan the book.
> OCR it to text and compile it to PDF.
> That way the text is text and not picture, so you
> can search in it and it uses a lot less space.
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> PDF is widely accepted and used when you need
> keep the layout. PDF can be converted to other
> formats
> quite easily with abundant programs in the internet
> (Postscript, html, etc.)
> Most printer accept or even prefer PDF when
> submitting
> print jobs.
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> The most laborous part is the scanning. If the
> Busby's is
> allready in sheet format, you can find a copy shop
> or printer
> with scanner that can scan them all automatically
> (like
> fotocopiers do). I was under the impression that the
> photocopy
> version of Busby's wasn't very good quality.
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> This method can still be used for text if it is
> readable
> (you need more proofreading), but pictures (or pages
> with them)
> should be scanned separately for the book.
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> I'm willing and able to OCR and compile the PDF from
> scans.
> (in any format, but gif is (still) pretty good for
> b/w pics. Jpg is
> lossy format so you lose some info.)
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> Jari Siikarla
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> --
> Jari Siikarla
> jari.siikarla@vertex.fi
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> Vertex Systems Oy
> Tel.+358 3 3134 11
> Vaajakatu 9
> FIN-33720 Tampere Finland
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