[Sca-cooks] PDF files

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius:
>I have not yet tried using Photoshop to convert to .eps, from there 
>to tiffs, and then run through OCR.

Eureka. Sort of. I find I can open a .pdf in Photoshop 7 for OS X 
(10.3.3) on a Macintosh, convert it to an uncompressed .TIFF file at 
a minimum of 200 dpi (large and slow -- but no interim .eps file 
needed) and then OmniPage Pro will read the sucker and convert it to 
text. Still a little more proofreading than I'd like, but it works, 
in theory. Good to know, for all that it's kind of a pain in the 
tuchus. Except in the case of really large, clear, simple text 
.pdf's, we're probably best off transcribing by hand. OCR can make 
some interesting errors when dealing with the kind of inconsistent 
typefaces common to SCA-sphere documents: old printed books, Ye Olde 
Englysshe ffontys, etc.

>  Usually, though, it's simpler to try to obtain the file in non-.pdf 
>format from the original source.

What I said. Basically, it's something I like knowing is possible, 
but not something I'd want to do regularly.

A. (does this make me a graphics geek?)