> On Aug 28, 2021, at 12:22 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
> On 8/28/21 8:57 AM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote:
>
>> Neatly solved in the document's future (but our past and present) by having
>> documents that are born digital.
>
> Good luck translating documents that HP, DEC and IBM produced in their
> proprietary "bookreader" formats so
> they don't look like crap.
The same goes for PDF, in many cases. But I have found that running a PDF
document through an OCR program that handles page formatting (like FineReader)
can work quite well. The OCR function itself of course works very nicely when
you have input like that -- no variability in the letter shapes. So you're
really dealing with the conversion from page geometry to text flow that those
programs also offer.
paul
