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Subject: Re: Floppies
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In comp.os.linux.misc Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote or quoted:
>>There is something weird with this PDF. Text looks fuzzy, as if the page 
>>was scanned or photocopied. But the text is selectable and searchable.
>>:-?
> 
>   So you take a page or a book, snap a digital photo of it, and
>   then OCR layers in text you can copy or search while you still
>   see the original photo. People do this all the time now.
> 
> 


I think that function is built into occular now