BlackRock
(media.greatawakening.win)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (43)
sorted by:
Thank you for this. Right now I can't remember why I wanted to do OCR on some documents but I was rummaging around with the various image formats - but had not gotten far enough into SVG. If I ever have to go down that rabbit hole again, I'll be thanking you again for this info. See? You never know who will benefit from what you share. GBY in this new year and in all of your years to come.
SVG is the only web-friendly format for scalable (vector) graphics, but a decent Searchable PDF OCR scan should convert the text to real fonts, allowing better scaling.
It seems that - for the 'project' - in which I was involved, we went with searchable .PDF. A contractor was supposedly being engaged (from what I remember) to do the majority of the scanning and OCR. Something to do with old newspaers. I was just delighted that there was available a format (searchable PDF) that could accomplish what we wanted. Sorry! It's been a LONG time ago and I was 'outplaced' before everything took off - but I thank you for triggering what little memory I have of the tech. Good times! ;)