أحمد
IB Expert
- Messages
- 1,895
- Reaction score
- 330
- Gender
- Male
- Religion
- Islam
As the closest to original digital form of this book is in image files; the optimal option to allow text search facility and easy of reading, was to compile a pdf document. The raw image files were available to download from the internet; I didn't scan the book myself.
Placing over 500 pages of scanned images in Microsoft Word; would result to a very large word document. That is neither practical for sharing; as I don't have enough storage on my old free webspace, nor the right permissions on public share at drivehq (as the permission error states). Furthermore, a word file of 1GB is very processor hungry compared to a 10MB compressed portable document format, which is also usable on other operating systems; requiring only a free PDF Reader.
Putting together all the factors; I don't think I can create a word document for it myself.
The text quality is as good as I found available; the real text is underlayed behind the image itself, which is the visible portion of the document. When you're reading, you can see the OCR'ed text, you only see the image above it. The reason I didn't replace the image with text altogether is that OCR isn't always accurate; correcting OCR errors would result in a very long delay (at least of a few months), before I could get anywhere near uploading the document. Although the reading quality would be real text, and there wouldn't be need of any compression; its very time consuming.
If I get enough time in future; I'll replace the images with correct OCRs :inshallah
:wa:
