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Re: Archiving old magazines on website



Matthew Montchalin wrote:
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Charles Richmond wrote:
|Acrobat (pdf) format is convenient and makes the information
|available. IMHO it is *much* better than *not* having access
|to the information at all. Making the information readable on
|older machines should be a separate project IMHO.
|>
|> I suggest GIF. It's an old format, and I know there are readers for
|> the CoCo 3 and C=64/128, probably also Apple.
|>
|You end up with *lots* of separate files for the same issue of
|a magazine. pdf at least allows combining the pages.

Okay, so which format is best for using a search engine with?
After all, it could save a lot of time being able to zero in
on that one article (in WHICH magazine?) that rare piece of
information is being stored.


I am currently looking at HTML and searchable PDF (text behind image). The HTML is text which could be searched easily, with a search engine. PDF files can also be searched if they are text behind image. I am assuming most people today have a PC or Mac with Acrobat Reader. However, converting PDF images to other formats isn't too bad, as it can be automated. GIF is a good alternative.

I have done a test on one magazine and am getting about 95% of the entire magazine OCR'd successfully. The articles OCR beautifully, but the other ads and less important stuff isn't being OCR'd very well.

I really appreciate all of this feedback, and any more on the way!!!

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Chris