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Old 08-10-2009, 02:50 PM   #1
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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.
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