28 Jun
2004
28 Jun
'04
4:54 a.m.
On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 14:56, Paul Koning wrote:
By the way, on the question "what format for
mixed OCR-text and images
-- simple: PDF of course.
Except, as said, not readable on a platform that doesn't have a PDF
viewer (or has a broken/slow/old one). IIRC, older versions of the
Acrobat viewer wouldn't even let you selectively copy and paste ASCII
text - I don't even know if the current versions do that. Plus I don't
know if I can run a PDF file through my favourite search tool -
certainly the few I've just looked at appear to be unreadable garbage.
If this wasn't a classic computer list *and* we were all expected to
have PCs running MS software then I'd agree that PDF might be a valid
choice. I'm just not so sure it's that simple in this case...
cheers
Jules