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=== Searchable PDFs created from scanned originals === | === Searchable PDFs created from scanned originals === | ||
Paper dictionaries are useful, but even more so after having been digitised and converted into searchable PDFs. These PDFs will typically contain both the original scanned image plus a separate text layer produced using optical character recognition (OCR). These files can then be indexed in a desktop search program such as dtSearch for quick and easy access to the data. | Paper dictionaries are useful, but even more so after having been digitised and converted into searchable PDFs. These PDFs will typically contain both the original scanned image plus a separate text layer produced using optical character recognition (OCR). These files can then be indexed in a [[Desktop search tools|desktop search program]] such as [https://www.dtsearch.com/ dtSearch] for quick and easy access to the data. | ||
I have all my valuable reference books processed in this way by a professional scanning company called [https://www.digitisemybooks.co.uk/ Digitisemybooks]. | I have all my valuable reference books processed in this way by a professional scanning company called [https://www.digitisemybooks.co.uk/ Digitisemybooks]. | ||
Books that have undergone this process, or that have been scanned by someone else, are labelled with the ‘[[:Category:Scanned|Scanned]]’ category on this site. | Books that have undergone this process, or that have been scanned by someone else, are labelled with the ‘[[:Category:Scanned|Scanned]]’ category on this site. | ||
Revision as of 17:14, 11 December 2023
Searchable PDFs created from scanned originals
Paper dictionaries are useful, but even more so after having been digitised and converted into searchable PDFs. These PDFs will typically contain both the original scanned image plus a separate text layer produced using optical character recognition (OCR). These files can then be indexed in a desktop search program such as dtSearch for quick and easy access to the data.
I have all my valuable reference books processed in this way by a professional scanning company called Digitisemybooks.
Books that have undergone this process, or that have been scanned by someone else, are labelled with the ‘Scanned’ category on this site.
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