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Re: Scanning Sather's "Understanding the Apple II"



BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sucks you have to give it back, I have a fast double-sided scanner
> setup perfect for turning large books in to pdf's -- OCR as well (using
> Acrobat 7 standard)

Do you think OCR is a good idea ? 
Yes, the file will weight much less, but there will be a lot of errors.
Imagine for example:
$C030 may end being ocr'ed as $C080
If we were talking about a novel, it would not matter, but this kind of
data is much more sensitive to typing errors.
OTOH, you can't ask acrobat to search for text in scanned images...
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Jorge Chamorro Bieling