Date   : Sun, 24 Jan 2016 17:52:29 -0000
From   : christopher.whytehead@... (chris whytehead)
Subject: Troubleshooting the BBC Mirco

Most of the later PDFs on Chris's Acorns were saved using an OCR text layer
so they could be searched.

I found that the benefits of searching outweighed the display problems with
the available RiscOS PDF Viewers.

 

chris

 

From:
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[mailto:bbc-micro-bounces+christopher.whytehead=ntlworld.com@...
.uk] On Behalf Of Darren Grant
Sent: 24 January 2016 11:50
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