[Web4lib] Degradation of PDF quality by Adobe 8 OCR

[Alan Cockerill]

We've recently upgraded to Adobe Professional 8 to convert our e-reserves
and we are seeing a significant degradation in the quality of the fonts
after the OCR process (this seems counter-intuitive to me). 

 

I've found only a few mentions of this issue, and no solutions.  Has anyone
already slain this beast? Or suggestion of where I might look for a knight
with a big sword.

 

Help with either my problems (searchable PDFs or predilection for
ill-thought-out extended metaphors) most appreciated. 

 

Thanks, Alan.

Alan Cockerill
Library Technologies Coordinator
James Cook University, Cairns 

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