Subject: Re: Manuals being scanned

14 May 2007

...
    Um,  how about any number of google searches that
I've done that bring up
 links to pdf files? 
 Doesn't mean they're OCRed. Run a 'strings' on the pdf -- the text is
 there.  
 Um,  yup...
 Nope,  I don't think any of that looks particularly useful... 
Then try it on a .pdf that isn't compressed (or a collection of images).
Otherwise, look for FlateEncode objects and run them through zlib to get
the original text back. That's what Google is doing, not OCRing.

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Subject: Re: Manuals being scanned