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Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 12:45:48 -0400
From: a@9srv.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: RE: [9fans] text search in PDF?
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// Rare cases when rasterized images of text pages are wrapped
// into Postscript or PDF formats are mostly due to a need to
// somehow publish scanned documents; or due to faulty conversion
// toolchain.

i can't comment on the causes, although your assesment seems quite
reasonable. i can say, however, that when i looked at the issue a
year or two (not more) ago, these cases were certainly not rare.
my measurements were quite unscientific, but it looked to be about
50% of the documents i examined (mostly pulled indiscriminatly from
the web).
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