The ACM PDF is a set of (poorly scanned) images. I am looking into OCR because even an error-ridden result could save me a few hours of typing.
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Joey K Tuttle <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
