On May 13, 2007, at 9:37 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>>
Another thing to consider is that GOOGLE OCRs .pdf
>> files that it spiders, highlighting search hits :-))
> can you provide any links to back that up?
(I mean, I believe
> you, but
> I've never read anywhere that that was happening and I'm curious
> about ti)
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.
UNLESS the PDF file simply consists of scanned images of pages,
which is frequently the case.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL