Better indexing on bitsavers

On Thu, 2005-05-19 22:20:53 +0000, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: There are alternatives, like: - A tarball containing all the TIFF (or whatever) images as well as some (generated) HTML page (containing some kind of slide show) as well as a small description file (use this with some program (to be written) to generate the HTML file(s)). This gives the chance that the description file can be done quite clever, so you'll get eg. a clickable index for the TIFF files (though, needs to be done manually, but now this work load can actually be *distributed*) - PDF isn't all that wrong. As far as I understood it, it's possible to embed any binary sequence into a PDF file. With a program (like an extended tumble) you can produce a readable PDF file that also acts as some kind of tarball (though needs a self-written generator/extractor). I actually *really* like the PDF approach, just because it's so easy and hassle-free to view the file. Also, if done right, you won't loose access to your actual image files. But in the long term, we need to work on the tools. (That's why I started to play a bit with the TeX approach.) That's my wishlist (to be addressed after the vax-linux port matured:-) - PDF files with really cool bookmarks, containing the chapter numbers, headings or page numbers (or any mixture of those). That means that the backing store might either be a tarball or a PDF file (used as a tarbarll). - I'm *really* missing a clickable index. People may invest the time to hand-type the original book's index and the pages into some description file. From this, I expect a new index (clickable) to be generated. - If graphical contents is OCRed+verified, there shall be a way to generate the final PDF with the OCRed data (except for those pages where this hasn't been done--there, the original image file should show up). Comments? MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw at lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier B?rger" | im Internet! | im Irak! O O O ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA));