--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My OCR packages all take PDF's as input docs.
Neat. Which packages are these? > I do this to all the PDF bitmapped documents > I get now. You can search for words then. A lot > of people are doing entire series of books, > encyclopedias, etc. Wow. I wish that someone would do that with the works of Dorothy Dunnett. On her discussion list when we wanted to search for phrases or characters, we had to rely on Amazon's "Look Inside This Book" feature. And as nice as that is in many ways, it has a tendency to lock you out after a very few searches. (There may be a way to subscribe to Amazon's feature for a price, but I never investigated it because I so rarely had to use it.) Isn't the sharing of information -- even IF one can legitimately call some of this sharing piracy -- a fascinating phenomenon? The other day Willytex asked how I managed to watch "Lost" in a remote village in France? How? Easy. Remember that dialogue in the first "Pirates of the Carib- bean" movie? Will Turner: You cheated. Jack Sparrow: Pirate. How did I keep up with "Lost" and "Dexter" and "Battlestar Galactica" and "The Dresden Files?" How did I manage to watch most of the interesting movies made last year, even the ones that were never released in France? I cheated. Pirate. And y'know...I just can't work up that much Buddhist guilt about it. I was a Deadhead for too long as a youth to believe overmuch in copyright in my dotage. :-)
