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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1561548" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>I had not really thought too much about that yet. I was still working lout how to make sure the content within a given pdf was searchable (searching within a specific issue/article for example. The closest idea I have come up with is that the articles would have to be scanned and run through OCR software otherwise they are treated as graphic images making it impossible to search text within an article. </p><p></p><p>My initial thought when I first conceived this was to group issues together using the tagging features in iTunes. Just as the "artist' field can be used to keep music by a given artist together patters by a given designer could be kept together by entering the designers name in a similar field for pdfs. The sort "album" in the sort tab could house the name of the magazine for example thus keeping collections intact <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20043959-263.html" target="_blank"></a></p><p><a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20043959-263.html" target="_blank"></a></p><p><a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20043959-263.html" target="_blank">Now that Apple has [URL="http://pastorhart.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/ipad-tip-organizing-pdfs-with-ibooks/"]shifted some aspects of pdf management to iBooks </a>I am going to re-think the best way to handle these situations. Either way I think the bulk of the pain in the rear factor will be getting good OCR scans if one wants to search text of any articles.</p><p></p><p>BTW One thought about Flash drives. They don't solve the problem of searching the text of the patterns if that's important to you. The scanned file would still be a picture of the page and not searchable. Mind if I ask what kinds of patterns you are working with (knitting, sewing etc.)?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1561548, member: 131855"] I had not really thought too much about that yet. I was still working lout how to make sure the content within a given pdf was searchable (searching within a specific issue/article for example. The closest idea I have come up with is that the articles would have to be scanned and run through OCR software otherwise they are treated as graphic images making it impossible to search text within an article. My initial thought when I first conceived this was to group issues together using the tagging features in iTunes. Just as the "artist' field can be used to keep music by a given artist together patters by a given designer could be kept together by entering the designers name in a similar field for pdfs. The sort "album" in the sort tab could house the name of the magazine for example thus keeping collections intact [URL="http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20043959-263.html"] Now that Apple has [URL="http://pastorhart.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/ipad-tip-organizing-pdfs-with-ibooks/"]shifted some aspects of pdf management to iBooks [/URL]I am going to re-think the best way to handle these situations. Either way I think the bulk of the pain in the rear factor will be getting good OCR scans if one wants to search text of any articles. BTW One thought about Flash drives. They don't solve the problem of searching the text of the patterns if that's important to you. The scanned file would still be a picture of the page and not searchable. Mind if I ask what kinds of patterns you are working with (knitting, sewing etc.)? [/QUOTE]
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