[Sigia-l] PDF: 99% bad

[Christopher Tubb]

Pat wrote:

 > If you have ever worked in the print industry (and some of us have), 
you
can't underestimate the power of PDFs.

I am aware PDF is a very useful file format and I've used it a lot in 
the past- I criticised a certain aspect of it, namely that it results 
in really bad search results generally because it can provide nodes 
that have a huge number of words in, and hence high relevance for 
everything.

Ziya wrote:

 > Yep, it's such a shame that virtually any decent index/search tool 
includes PDF support.

Yes and that's a real world problem, for those of us here.

 > Or is this another solar eruption causing folks to confuse technology 
and implementation, again?
...
 >Wake me up when that happens. Meanwhile, check out PDF/XML integration

I asked whether there is anything IAs can do to improve implementation 
I never mentioned technology.

I'll ask again - what real world solutions can IAs think of get round 
the problem?

Chris


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