I compile TeX directly to PDF using free software called TeXShop --- I've found this system robust and reliable, if lacking fancy facilities such as inline WYSIWIG availalble on some other (PC) systems. It runs on pretty much any available harware/software, and the output produced is searchable by other PDF viewers (I tried). WFL On 11/2/07, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
I checked some documents downloaded from ACM's Digital Library. The ones I checked were searchable, so they must have text behind them somewhere. Interestingly, I looked at the PDF document's "properties", and nothing was said about whether there was text behind or not.
Which PDF programs produce searchable text? Does the standard dvips/gsview program produce searchable PDF ? Is there a recommended way to go from TeX to searchable PDF?
At 10:04 AM 11/2/2007, Jason wrote:
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, James Buddenhagen wrote:
On 11/2/07, Tom Knight <tk@csail.mit.edu> wrote:
I'm amazed that Google is not using the "text behind image" feature of PDF files to handle this. Modern OCR programs produce text behind the page image, which is then searchable and selectable for cut and paste. I wonder why this obviously useful idea is not used in their scanning and OCR. I guess they want to be the only people who can search and index the pages.
I couple of book search guys work in my building. I'll ask what's up.
-J
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