Sources for 8b TTL keyboards (Keytronics)

On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 02:40:21PM -0500, der Mouse wrote: xpdf for one thing, evince also displays PDF. Both of which support text search in the PDF file. Of course, this assumes a reasonably sanely built PDF file. If all the text is really just graphics, you are screwed. Or if some idiotic PDF generator does silly things, see below. Also, I don't know how bad Microsofts PDF/PS "printer drivers" are these days, but several years back they were horrible. I was working on an online archive for scientific papers back then and one of the things we did was searching in the papers. Which requires indexing them first. Worked great for PS/PDF coming out of the LaTeX toolchain, but we got absolutely _nothing_ from PS files we knew were created using the Microsoft Windows PS "printer drivers". Ok, time to check by hand. Turns out the blistering idiots were positioning _every_ single character indiviually, including whitespace characters. Great. Then I found a tool (IIRC ps2txt written by some DEC guys back then) that went through the PS file and used heuristics over the distance between letters to rebuild the words and extract the text. That worked more or less. Hmm, that would be useful, but IIRC the only tools that can add comments to PDF files are the Adobe ones. :-( Regards, Alex. -- "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison