[Taxacom] PDF as archive format

[Dave Roberts]

Dear David,

I suspect that your problems are from PDFs generated from a scanned  
image and using Adobe's OCR tool (built into Acrobat).  This indeed  
does not perform very well by modern standards.

PDFs generated from born-digital documents, on the other hand, are  
perfectly rendered.

Cheers,  Dave
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On 16 Nov 2010, at 13:34, David Campbell wrote:

> PDF does not seem to be ideal in its relatively poor character
> recognition.  Try to electronically copy something from a PDF as text
> and you generate typos; similar problems affect searches.

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