[time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken
Mike Monett
xde-l2g3 at myamail.com
Wed Jul 1 20:05:07 UTC 2009
> Hi, I don't think its a version problem. When you have the patent
> displayed (View original document tab) you only see one page at a
> time. see
>
http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?FT=D&date=20040226&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP&CC=US&NR=2004036036A1&KC=A1
> (one of mine ;-)
> There is a bar above the view window with a "save full document"
> option. If you click on this it will ask you to decode a captcha
> before downloading the PDF.
> Regards,
> Robert Akinson
Thanks, I see what you mean now. I didn't notice that link the first
time. It works great!
That is an interesting patent application. It was in 2004 - I wonder
why it hasn't issued yet.
Looks like google patents is back online. I must have caught them as
they were switching over to captchas. The site looks and works
different now, and they require decoding the captcha before
downloading. I guess that's OK, since it still is the best site
online for US patents.
But it means I can no longer link to the pdf file and convert it
directly to DjVu. This OCR's the file and makes it text-searchable.
The size drops considerably, and the DjVu reader is much faster than
any pdf reader I've used. It is often worth the effort for large
pdf's or ones you need to study a great deal.
Now I have to download the file from google, then upload it to DjVu.
This takes time, but the conversion takes much longer, so I guess it
doesn't matter.
If you'd like to try DjVu, you can start here:
http://any2djvu.djvuzone.org/ulinit.php?submit.x=81&submit.y=30
If you don't have a viewer, you can get a free viewer at
http://windjview.sourceforge.net/
Thanks,
Mike
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