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Re: SwyftWare
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In article <ohzhd.16484$ta5.7674@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
J.P. <jpt9@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote in message
>news:<20041031033502.11769.00003313@mb-m29.aol.com>...
>> If that's really true, then what's the patent number? One can view US
>> patents online at the US patent office website,
>> http://www.uspto.gov/patft One problem I have with it is that if the
>> patent was issued before a certain date, the only way of retrieving it is
>> with a patent number, though come to think of it this patent probably
>> came after that date. If it's part of the patent, it should be there.
>
>There's only one problem -- it's not text. You have to download at
>least 20 TIFFs (they'll ban you [I think] if you download them
>simultaneously [sp?]), and OCR them, then double-check the OCRing... etc.
AFAIK, there should be no restriction on retrieving a few images from the
USPTO website...you're paying for it, after all.
BTW, there were 39 TIFFs in this one, and they've been converted to PDF and
put up for download here:
http://alfter.us/files/uspat5019806.pdf
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