Re: Google's PDF-as-text
In message <a61a1dba50.jim(a)nails.ukonline.co.uk>
Jim Nagel <netsurf(a)abbeypress.co.uk> wrote:
when the results of a Google search include a PDF, Google offers to
display it as plain text. but it comes out as nonsense in Netsurf
(r9629): all the lines of text seem to be piled on top of one another.
at least in this example:
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:dr7rk6-FAmcJ:www.mendip.gov.uk/Downl...
Is the original pdf just an image file served up as a pdf?
As pdf's from the http://whatdotheyknow.com site viewed as html work
fine if they are not purely image files, as these two examples show.
<http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/3567/response/8806/attach/html/3/im...
Failed.
<http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/19334/response/54789/attach/html/3/...
Works.
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