BLuRry wrote:
Actually, when you OCR a pdf you have the option of retaining the original image of the text. At the very worst, you enable the pdf to be fully searchable -- and that makes life very easy. At the very best, you might be able to copy/paste a few snippets of text with minimal errors.
It would be a nice capability if such "mixed" documents could have their OCRed parts "proofread and corrected" by readers, who could then mark the pages so corrected. This would distribute the arduous and fatiguing task of fixing up the OCRed version, until, when each page had been corrected, one might make the decision to dispose of "text only" images, and retain only the human-verified OCRed version. This kind of distributed activity seems quite fitting for the Internet community. -michael Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it is seriously underused."