23 Dec
2008
23 Dec
'08
10:45 a.m.
der Mouse wrote:
You're welcome to your "better things"
all you like. But please stop
holding those of us who care more about getting the information than
about using the Latest Whizzbang Impediment To Getting Work Done back
from getting it!
.txt doesn't hold diagrams.
Obviously, both formats are useful. Since space is cheap, I always
store my scans in three formats:
- Compressed TIFF
- PDF
- .txt
That way the original TIFFs can be re-processed in a decade with better
tools, the PDF is available to distribute and has full text search +
diagrams, and the OCR'd .txt is available for those who are just looking
for the text data.
That's the final solution, and anyone arguing for a single format for
scans of datasheets (or any documentation!) is missing the point, all
parties included.
--
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