[sdiy] Can anyone OCR the AN23.PDF File Here?

[Quincas Moreira]

I think people would pay more than 40usd for 6000 historic pages as PDFs,
and at no printing or shipping cost for Bernie, that can become a
significant increase in profit and decrease in effort. Increase in volume
too, as more people may be inclined to pay say, 100 bucks, than the current
cost. That right there may be a reason to endeavor to at least make the pre
2000 issues available in PDF as well. IF Ebook becomes unmanageable a well
searchable PDF collection is plenty good enough.

On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Andrew Simper <andy at cytomic.com> wrote:

> On 7 July 2017 at 01:30, Bernard Arthur Hutchins Jr <bah13 at cornell.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Since there is no improvement in the figures/equations, and the text is
> a serious downgrade, tell me again (anyone) why an OCR/ebook is a good idea
> here.
> >
> >
> > Bernie
> >
> >
>
> Bernie,
>
> I admire your patience on this topic. It has always been clear to me
> that trying to convert the text into computer characters is a bad
> idea, but it is also very clear to me that having everything as PDF is
> a good idea, even if it's just entire pages as images.
>
> The best option from my point of view, if it's made clear that
> searching may not find all instances, is to have the original whole
> page images displayed for the old PDFs, but also include the OCR text
> as a searchable part to the document. This way a bulk search will
> hopefully at least give you a hit on each PDF that the keyword is in,
> even if it doesn't get every keyword right (Rf vs Ri) in every
> instance of that word at least it should give you the right document,
> which would be a massive help. This process could be entirely
> automated, no proofing required.
>
> I know Bernie likes paper, and so do I, when I really want to
> understand something and work through it I print out the single PDF
> I'm working on so I can scribble on it and hold it and understand it
> better. Most of the time I don't need to do this, just reading it on
> screen is enough. For me being able to have a copy to read in digital
> form is better than no copy, and it is also better than having the
> entire collection as paper. I'm younger and used to PDFs, and being
> able to search the entire collection for a keyword and then have the
> full image scan of the PDF in question to read error free I would
> definitely pay USD 40 for.
>
> Bernie, what is your opinion on this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
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