Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

[Lee Hart <leeahart@earthlink.net>]

BlackJack wrote:
>>> A lot of stuff is available scanned, but locked up in PDF files...
>> You can always display it on your screen with Acrobat Reader, do a
>> screen capture, with e.g. Paint Shop Pro, into a graphics file, and
>> then OCR that file.
> Or tell some program like Ghostscript to "print" all pages in
> seperate BMP files.

Yes, there are lots of ways to do it if you have a very clean original.
But I was dealing with 25-year old documents that were badly printed to
begin with. Automated systems made so many errors that proofreading was
very tedious, and many sections simply had to be re-typed.
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