At 20:31 4/27/2000 -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
>[I think we need software for automatically extracting the words from PDF
>and MS-Word documents so they can be found in web searches. It looks like
>the bad guys are deliberately putting lots of interesting stuff in PDF
>to make it hard to find and read. --gnu]
I don't have the time to write such a thing, at least right now, but I'd be
happy to host a targeted spider on my server. I've got the space and
bandwidth and we could aim it at certain potentially-interesting sites.
(There must be plenty of text converters for MSWD and PDF files, right?)
-Declan