19 May
2005
19 May
'05
7:54 p.m.
Dwight K. Elvey declared on Thursday 19 May 2005 07:52 pm:
This gave me an idea... it'd be nifty if there was OCR software that
would convert the scanned image into LaTeX.
Barring that, PostScript would even be a decent alternative to PDF - it's
fairly readable Forth, and any decent printer can accept it to produce a
new hardcopy. I know you can convert PDF back to postscript (ie "Print"
From: "der
Mouse" <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca>
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Those (OCRed plain text and PDF files) are not the
only options.
Hi
Of course, I have a better option. I have some of the actual
ASCII source text for a few of the manuals used in the
Polymorphics systems. I lack pictures and diagrams but
at least there are not OCR errors.
I guess this isn't always available for everything :( from a pdf viewer on a *NIX machine), but that's
probably not the same.
(Yes, I'm saying if a printer can't be made to accept postscript - either
standard or via an option ROM, it isn't "decent".)
Pat
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