Date   : Sun, 24 Jan 2016 11:49:34 +0000
From   : darren.grant@... (Darren Grant)
Subject: Troubleshooting the BBC Mirco

PDF documents can have an OCR text layer.

If you look at the publications on archive.org.

You get to see the scanned content but search engines are able to index the text.

While OCR is not 100% it doesn?t matter as you are not reading it, just using
it for indexing.

Darren

On 24 Jan 2016,@11:43, John <blip@...> wrote:

>  
> Hi
>  
> I?ve highlighted this back to the list, because it?s not just a good resource
Daniel mentioned, its highlighted a question I wanted to ask:
>  
> A lot of good work has been done by the support community in converting
books to PDF, but do we actually have an issue in that these aren?t searchable
by an internet search engine?
>  
> Is anyone compiling a definitive list of these resources ? because I probably
would only have found this by accident, if Daniel hadn?t pointed it out.
>  
> We have the good work being done by JG Harston with BeebWiki, but is anyone
compiling a searchable library of PDF publications so that they are (more)
accessible?
>  
> Or JG, can you move recommended books to the Wiki? Huge piece of work I
appreciate.
>  
> Kind regards
>  
>  
>  
> John