I often employ the word 'raster', along with some other foul language, for any PDFs that don't have manipulate-able text.
-James -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Jenkins Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 1:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] What's the descriptive technical terminology?... pdf image of a page. pdf format used with cut paste. I've also heard many people use the term "searchable PDF" for a text-based PDF. Keith On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Peter Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > That is the same terminology I use as well -- image-based versus text-based. > I find that works most times because people can visually see if something > looks like a scanned image.
