Re: PC-DOS 7 technical reference manual, PDF and html

[Heimo Claasen]

On what Dale Mentzer wrote on: Tue, 16 Jan 2001:

> Have you tried loading one of those co-processor emulators before the
> PDF2TEXT converter program...
The announcement said it's a "DOS" prog. So why should it need a math
coprocessor ?

> I have a 6meg PDF of the manual for my Star Micronics printer
> that it converted to a 300K text file. Manually editing out the garbage
> and empty space dropped it below 200k.
And that's precisely the point: what's needed is a sheer text extractor,
not something that leaves you with lots of manual editing. Comparable to
this excellent HTML-stripper, HTMSTRIP.

BTW, the example mentioned is exemplary for the completely superfluous
use of that bloatware - hardly three per cent of "payload" in terms of
text contained.

// Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2001-01-25
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