Hold the scanners

Barry> Re: "Obviously the value would be greatly enhanced if we could Barry> knock up an index (document title or part number, where it Barry> starts, where it ends) and better yet if individual docs could Barry> be pulled out into separate pdfs." Barry> All of this is fairly easy if you have full-version Adobe Barry> Acrobat. I'm not saying it's not time consuming, but it's far Barry> less difficult than many people (who have never used Barry> full-version Acrobat, but have only used the reader) would Barry> suspect. Barry> I MIGHT do it if I get access to the files. Downloading 1,000 Barry> jpegs will probably take a lot more time than consolidating Barry> them into a PDF file, which can then be fairly indexed. I would hope the scans are TIFF, not JPG. JPG images are generally blurry, especially if the original had sharp black & white contrast. JPG is NOT fit for that job. paul