Date   : Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:43:23 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: The Micro User

"Mark Usher" wrote:
> I experimented with pulling the magazines apart and found the best way was
> to use a plane, holding the magazine between two pieces of square edged
> timber to get a clean cut and edge.
 
Scan the spine first ;) A good vertical guillotine works quite
well.
 
> Regarding the OCRing and images. The main purpose is to preserve the image
> as published, and thus the information it contains. Modern techniques can be
 
I see the main purpose is to preserve the information it contains,
ie, the /content/.
 
> used to do this, but the object is not to recreate a file that can be used
> to reproduce or reprint the original.
 
Exactly.
 
> articles and preserve the images as they were originally published. It would
 
I hate PDFs containins pictures of words just as much as I hate
websites containing pictures of words. The letter 'A' is one byte,
why should I be forced to consume 30-plus bytes to get that single
letter 'A'?
 
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