[time-nuts] 5370B Manual - Searchable?

Rix Seacord eseacord at verizon.net
Sat Apr 7 15:38:56 UTC 2012


Ed
Thank you for the education. I didn't give it much thought the pdf file 
could consist of a bunch of scanned pages.
Funny I can come up with some old ball trouble shooting of boat anchors 
but not on this "modern" stuff.
Gotta look into this some more.

Ewing (Rix) Seacord
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On 4/7/2012 3:36 AM, Ed Palmer wrote:
> Hi Ewing,
>
> It's a function of the file.  Most of the old tech manuals we see are 
> just pictures of text that have been scanned and put into a pdf file.  
> There's no text so there's nothing to search.  It looks like Phantom 
> has OCR capabilities so it should be able to take a non-searchable pdf 
> and change it to a searchable pdf.  How well it does it and how much 
> post-OCR editing is required is another matter.
>
> Ed
>
> On 4/7/2012 12:46 AM, Rix Seacord wrote:
>> Ed
>> Is that a function of the pdf file or the reader?
>> I've been  using Foxit Phantom that will even search multiple pdf 
>> files in the same folder.
>> Good luck in your quest.
>>
>> Ewing (Rix) Seacord
>> K2AVP/4/499
>> eseacord at verizon.net
>>
>> 845-628-0892 Home
>> 914-262-9186 Cell
>> 914-233-3886 Skype Notebook
>>
>>
>> On 4/7/2012 12:00 AM, Ed Palmer wrote:
>>> Is there a pdf of the HP 5370B Manual that allows you to search for 
>>> text?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Ed
>
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