Thanks for your kind although largely undeserved words Jones. My English is not effortless at all and could be much better considering I spent three years in the UK when I was a student, but daily reading of high quality contributions from you and other learned Vorticians definitely makes it improve!
Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jones Beene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 4:10 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Requesting comments to this comment > Michel- > > Excellent suggetion! > > BTW - may I ask how you became so facile in the English language? > > I assume you must be speaking French in your daily routine, and it is no > easy feat to switch back and forth as effortlessly as you must be > capable of doing.... > > Jones > > > > Michel Jullian wrote: >> Let's pretend for a minute that both sides in this dispute are in good faith: >> >> - Jed understandably prefers text because it allows indexing and searching. >> - Mitchell understandably prefers raw scanned images because they are more >> faithful to the original document. >> >> I suggest to stand on the shoulders of Giants and do it the "Amazon Search >> Inside" or "Google Books" way: use the scanned images to make a searchable >> image document, which still makes the document appear as the original >> scanned images on screen, but makes it searchable by linking the images of >> what is recognized as words to an invisible background layer of OCR'ed text. >> >> The OCR function built in Acrobat Professional (Document > Recognize text >> using OCR) does just that, and is in my experience sufficiently Hi Fi, even >> without correcting the few inevitable OCR mistakes(*), for searchability of >> the resulting searchable image pdfs to be excellent. >> >> (*)this would save Jed a lot of time so he could upload many more papers, >> for the benefit of all. >> >> Michel >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jed Rothwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <vortex-L@eskimo.com> >> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 8:26 PM >> Subject: Re: [Vo]:Requesting comments to this comment >> ... >> >>> Last year he sent me a scanned image of a paper. I OCR'ed, and sent >>> him back the text, and I offered to upload it if he would check for >>> OCR mistakes and provide better graphic images. He refused. Again, I >>> have no idea why or what his purpose was in sending me the paper. >>> Before he sent it, I told him that I convert all papers Acrobat text >>> format. Why did he bother sending it if he does not want that? >>> Perhaps he sent it and then refused to allow me to convert it so that >>> he could complain to people that I refuse to upload his papers. To >>> give himself a reason to complain, in other words. Who knows? Who cares? >> >> ... >> >> >
