On Mar 19, 2006, at 1:02 PM, Jeremy Hunsinger wrote:
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I download or print every document to pdf that i deem appropriate, currently around 11000 different pdfs, I make sure that they are all full text pdfs ...
I too strongly prefer full-text pdfs, I'd love to know how you ensure this. I've written to our e-journal subscriptions person at the library explaining their importance and requesting that the library prefer full-text pdf providers when purchasing eJournal subscriptions. Unfortunately this crucial bit of metadata doesn't appear to make its way into library catalogues (or services like openurl lookups) so I find it hard to remember which providers have full-text searchable pdfs while grabbing research papers online. This means I'm often annoyed later finding image PDFs (yes, I'm looking at you JSTOR) in my personal library. To be clear, I'm referring to online journal providers. If one is printing html or other full-text documents---ie creating one's own PDF records---then it is fairly easy to ensure: It's the default mode in 'printing PDF to disk' on OS X, and I assume that Acrobat has that same capability on windows. Any hints? Are you using OCR to convert the image PDFs? Is that pretty effective? Does it integrate with DEVONthink? Perhaps we should create a list of full-text PDF providers on a wiki somewhere? Does anyone in the e-journal purchasing world already prefer full-text PDF providers? Or maybe end-user OCR is sufficient? Thanks, James ps. apologies for the thread-jack. FWIW I use BibDesk, which is great for bibtex/latex integration and searching inside PDFs, but lacking in Word integration and Windows-ness. Quotes go into the annotation field linked to the record. http://bibdesk.sf.net