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Old 10-29-2008, 01:17 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney View Post
Even the ones you can read all of will be problematic for download/convert. They have PDFs which are essentially scanned page images, and a "View as plain text option", but the plain text would require a lot of editing and cleanup. (I grabbed a copy of Max Weber's _The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism_ with a view to converting, and gave up when I saw the work required.)
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The work around I've been using for some time now is to take the PDF scanned images and convert them using Adobe Pro. Although it renders a large MB file, you can then easily - and I mean easily and quickly - convert or copy into another document to an output of your choice. (Since I already used Adobe Pro extensively to generate PDF's, this was not an added expense for me.)
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