Date   : Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:11:50 +0200
From   : "Mark Usher" <mu.list@...>
Subject: Magazine test scans

Hello all,

please look at

http://members.magnet.at/marku/bbc/autest.htm

and post all comments to the list as I would like this to be openly
discussed.

Robert Smith wrote:
> Part of the charm of having magazine scans available electronically,
> IMHO, is to have it rendered on the screen as identical to the original
> as possible.  Being able to extract ASCII text (as in a properly OCRed
> PDF) is very desirable, but secondary.  Next comes metadata and
> hyperlinks: some time in the future, we may have a relatively complete
> set of, say, vintage Acorn Users available as PDFs.  Imagine the
> coolness of being able to instantly jump to referenced articles in other
> issues, or to click a keyword and be presented with a cross reference to
> occurances of the keyword in other issues, or even in other magazines.

Yes. I would say that most of the above would pretty well describe aims of
what should be acheived.

> Several shortcomings of PDF have now been pointed out, but to me it
> still seems like the best (ultimate, almost) option.
Got to be carefull there as many pdf's use jpeg compression for the images.

Anyway have a look at the page I put up, and try it out.

Mark Usher