Re: What has been scanned/captured?

["Paul R. Santa-Maria" <paulrsm@buckeye-express.com>]

Simon Williams wrote:
> I just took a look at a .pdf in BBEdit, and it certainly doesn't look
> like a trivial matter to convert it to ASCII.
> 
> But it got me thinking that an offline html viewer would probably be
> relatively simple [for someone else] to program. I don't mean a fancy
> graphical thing, just a basic text-browser and maybe something like ][
> GIF to view images on the 128K version.
> 
> HTML seems like a better bet as far as universality goes, and file sizes
> are a lot more in line with the Apple II's capabilities.
> 
> Any takers?

The fundamental problem is that the scans are PICTURES of text and
not text itself.  Converting a picture of text to text requires
an OCR program and lots of time to proofread and edit the output.

We have many text viewers for the Apple II family.
They are called "text editors" and "word processors".

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Paul R. Santa-Maria
Monroe, Michigan USA