Is the ACM PDF somehow protected against a simple copy/paste of the text?? That saves quite a bit of tedium versus retyping (and likely has fewer errors than scanning OCR conversion).
- joey At 12:52 -0500 2009/02/16, Devon McCormick wrote: >Hi - I'm working on a web page commemorating Ken's Turing award and am >wondering if anyone has a copy of his lecture in a text format; i.e. not the >PDF of images from the 1981 issue of Communications of the ACM, which I >have. > >I'm currently typing it in but it's going to take a while. Fortunately, for >the web page, I'll initially need only the introductory section, which I've >already entered. Part of the difficulty of entering it is the APL character >set (surprise) but I've decided that the APL385 Unicode font will do for >this. Interestingly, one of the first "special" characters was _not_ a >standard APL one - it's the double-headed arrow for "equivalence". > >In any case, I would like to get the whole lecture up in a more searchable >form. > >Thanks, > >Devon > >-- >Devon McCormick, CFA >^me^ at acm. >org is my >preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
