[Simh] scandocs.trailing-edge.com

Peter Svensson psvsimh at psv.nu
Sat Jan 29 11:49:58 EST 2011


On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, Tim Shoppa wrote:

> I made scandocs.trailing-edge.com back when I had not fully adapted
> to the PDF world. I'm still not sure that PDF is the optimal archive format
> for scanned documents but as far as readability on a wide range of
> convenient display devices they are the obvious choice.

When I archive old computer manuals I usually run the images through an 
OCR program an geenrate a PDF with image-over-text. This retains the 
graphical image as scanned, but allows the documnet to be searched and 
indexed.

Peter




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