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Sparrow · 08-10-2009, 02:50 PM

This is just a small tip, but I'm finding it very helpful just now.

I'm converting a public domain PDF to text and am coming across some gaps where there is a word or two missing.

I'm using the only complete PDF file I could find for this book, so I was trying to figure out where I could check for the words that were missing.
It turns out that you can search Google books for a phrase near the gap, the search results will return a text snippet from Google books that ordinarily are 'Snippet view' or 'No preview available'.
The text displayed in the search results contains the missing words from the PDF I'm using.

08-10-2009, 02:50 PM	#1
Sparrow Wizard Posts: 4,395 Karma: 1358132 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: UK Device: Palm TX, CyBook Gen3	Filling in gaps in a PDF scan This is just a small tip, but I'm finding it very helpful just now. I'm converting a public domain PDF to text and am coming across some gaps where there is a word or two missing. I'm using the only complete PDF file I could find for this book, so I was trying to figure out where I could check for the words that were missing. It turns out that you can search Google books for a phrase near the gap, the search results will return a text snippet from Google books that ordinarily are 'Snippet view' or 'No preview available'. The text displayed in the search results contains the missing words from the PDF I'm using.