Scanning docs

[Scott Gravenhorst]

"Dan Gendreau" <gendreau at rochester.rr.com> wrote:
>PDF is probably the easiest format to distribute documents in since it
>packages all the pages together, but If you are like me and you like to
>edit/manually clean up scanned schematics then PDF is a big pain in the ass
>because it will not allow you to extract the images back out.

This has always been my MAJOR complaint about PDF.  Plus, I don't want
to BUY yet another application to create them.

However, it's not impossible to extract an image from a pdf, just a 
serious pain in the butt.  Essentially, you get the zoom right so
you can see detail clearly and do screen prints to capture.  You'll
need to do more than one for images that are larger than the screen
when zoomed to a usable mag.  Image apps can put them together but
it is alot of work to align the pieces.  

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