Re: What's the descriptive technical terminology?... pdf image of a page. pdf format used with cut paste.

From: Van Mil, James (vanmiljf) <vanmiljf_at_nyob> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:10:52 -0400 To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU

I often employ the word 'raster', along with some other foul language, for any PDFs that don't have manipulate-able text.

-James

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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Keith Jenkins
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] What's the descriptive technical terminology?... pdf image of a page. pdf format used with cut paste.

I've also heard many people use the term "searchable PDF" for a text-based PDF.

Keith

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Peter Murray <peter.murray_at_lyrasis.org> wrote:
> That is the same terminology I use as well -- image-based versus text-based. I find that works most times because people can visually see if something looks like a scanned image.