> From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
> At 10:35 PM 4/10/01 -0400, David Gesswein wrote:
> >The software I use to make my tiff files available as PDF will convert
> >them.
> >ftp://ftp.pdp8.net/software/c42pdf/
>
> So this tool just creates a simple PDF containing all the G4 TIFFs?
>
Yes
> This morning I was looking at the 20K+ scanned pages of documents
> I received recently. They're all G4 TIFF, about 800 megs worth.
> The scans are quite clean, but it's just directories of loose files,
> page0001.tif, page0002.tif, etc.
>
The tiffcp program I use with it will combine separate tiff pages into
one document.
> TIFF-based multi-page single-linked PDFs would be good, but
> OCR'd and searchable in conjunction with the bitmap would be even better.
>
> I've got Acrobat 4.0 for my Mac G4, but that doesn't OCR, does it?
>
I played with OCR a while ago and none were accurate enough that you didn't
need to spend a lot of time cleaning up if you were only using the OCR
output. They also had problems maintaining format but did pretty good if
you went to PDF. PDF does have an ability to store documents with both the
bitmap for viewing/printing and OCR text to allow searching etc. Adobe
capture is the big one for that but expensive. Pagis used to support it
and was inexpensive but dropped that capability.
Links from when I was looking. Since I still had/have lots of documents
left to scan I decided fancy features which take time can wait.
http://web3.humboldt1.com/~jiva/ocr/_ocr_resource.htm
http://cpdf.adobe.com/index.pl/4224310545.38939?BP=NS
http://www.pdfzone.com/
Let me know what you find that you like.
David Gesswein
http://www.pdp8.net/ -- Run an old computer with blinkenlights
Received on Wed Apr 11 2001 - 17:05:23 BST