On Jul 5, 2016, at 12:24, Dave Mielke <d...@mielke.cc> wrote: > How searchable is PDF?
That depends on how it was produced. The worst case scenario is a set of pages that were simply scanned in as images. This isn't accessible as text, let alone searchable. In a better scenario, the text would be accessible, but no indexing would have been done (so, searching would be compromised, slow, or simply unavailable). However, a document which was generated using a good tool chain can be quite searchable. Given that the manual in question starts as SGML, I wouldn't be surprised if it can generate high-quality PDF, but Samuel will know for sure. -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin r...@cfcl.com http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume San Bruno, CA, USA +1 650-873-7841 Software system design, development, and documentation _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
