Date   : Sun, 24 Jan 2016 12:00:00 -0000
From   : blip@... (John)
Subject: Troubleshooting the BBC Mirco

Thanks Darren

 

Apart from making me feel old, those copies of the Micro User have reminded
me that there was a list member who was actively compiling these alongside
other documents.

 

Would be interesting to know who that was, and if they are using OCR.

 

Kind regards

 

John

 

From: bbc-micro-bounces+blip=blipit.com@...
[mailto:bbc-micro-bounces+blip=blipit.com@...] On Behalf Of
Darren Grant
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2016 11:50 AM
To: BBC Micro Mailing List
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] 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