If you OCR, always archive the bitmaps too - Re: Regarding Manuals - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

27 Sep 2015

We keep the graphics files as archive and to print from f o r displays. ... to read and
search the pdf with inlaid ocr is ? reference. ? Ed# www.smecc.org

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-------- Original message --------
From: Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> 
Date: 09/27/2015  11:07 AM  (GMT-07:00) 
To: General at classiccmp.org, "Discussion at classiccmp.org:On-Topic and Off-Topic
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Subject: Re: If you OCR, always archive the bitmaps too - Re: Regarding Manuals 

On 2015-09-27 12:22 PM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
...
  On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 04:08:07PM +0200, Johnny
Billquist wrote:

 I don't have problems reading the current scans, as such. But when
 having ten of these open at the same time, and scrolling through
 them, it becomes obvious that the bitmaps are heavy. It can take a
 while for the screen to be updated. Not to mention the problems you
 sometimes hits with searching...

 It seems to me that a better tool could solve the issue. One that
 could display the OCR:ed content only and the scanned content
 only when desired, for instance when you suspect an error.

 Is there such a reader? Is the content organised to make it
 possible.

 /P

Right, if the bitmaps aren't available, then it's not an acceptable archive.

Personally I never, ever, want to see the OCR'd version. But that may be 
coloured by a career as typographer and finished artist. No software can 
apply the judgment that humans did in the print edition; it's only more 
or less degrading steps from that point on.

And to be clear I'm not at loggerheads with Johnny because I am indeed 
talking about acceptable archiving practice, not some conversion of a 
particular text which might be useful for a particular person on a 
particular day.

--Toby