On Mar 25, at 3:33 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer typed:
My friend is using a (horrors) pc. I believe she is scanning and usingadobe acrobat to make them pdfs.
I'd also suggest that Acrobat's OCR be run on the files and then the text saved as a background layer so the files are searchable. This is standard operating procedure for the sites that archive old research papers and makes them show up in Google. I'm involved in a project to do this now with older issues of a mathematics journal for which I am one of the editors. We scan papers to tiff, use Tesseract OCR to extract text and then combine the scans and text into PDF.
She wants pdfs (as opposed to just text docs or sending the reader to amagazine's web page) for a couple of reasons: 1. She wants potential clients to see the impact of her article as it appeared in print form 2. And she doesn't want potential clients to leave her site.
Does she have the permission of the copyright holders to do this? Many periodicals don't want just anybody to post their old articles online because they want to sell you their older content.
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