From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alessandro Bertulli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Academic workflow with old PDFs Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2022 22:57:58 +0200 Message-ID: <87h726zl7t.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38033"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: tomas@tuxteam.de Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 20 22:58:31 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oPVY7-0009ih-0a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2022 22:58:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39766 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oPVY5-0003r8-S2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2022 16:58:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43044) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oPVXh-0003qy-Ae for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2022 16:58:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ej1-x62b.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::62b]:36649) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oPVXf-0004Te-MK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2022 16:58:05 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-ej1-x62b.google.com with SMTP id fy5so14694742ejc.3 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2022 13:58:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=mime-version:message-id:date:in-reply-to:subject:cc:to:from:from:to :cc; bh=4VCKfGqSMbs7/F8osr7+E85HVr2PxLXEUg2kj1ZE1xY=; b=a/wsbqjAoobyGmOr8lG5Y28sRyfBNT33Yp+SJPrFrCNAlEANEbtoMU8H46oxUFSkns iNurKMPqWgCNp2RQnx/NJKZzWXpNoyjB1FIu3eCoTS2gQ+KM6U9Kv9qF1ptdxKcjzfx+ wzyREHcz5/7b3zlc+hWVlaVqxS/Rx2CfCm9PPf8rLy+0hMv6FuyouroUQXCxViCCdsVp WvnTN6zp5bMrsHQNEc+foy7zKg4z7dL7shrg3WDJuawBJefNxfVkyI7zxgPLwHWP1xaB tKouBgVO9g16lVNR0mjDCP4pMHDWyT4ll1BcQba5GAbPekX8bGgI2DdgaDmdR8jx9Y+B u2AQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=mime-version:message-id:date:in-reply-to:subject:cc:to:from :x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc; bh=4VCKfGqSMbs7/F8osr7+E85HVr2PxLXEUg2kj1ZE1xY=; b=cECwPy3l563LjckOSnWQ1Q3Mlj9yCb8MKMDapnui4mZB9SIOUVfm/iQx85XxXawIBt ZYL0v36ZINrO7NH0POXf7Pmv5CsB2qT61ULerro5pf63pr4OqHu2cOjnUbXgurVf0WCC tGFHqGXwW74BNwu5jhJ8cSJMET9Qy9yAP0n0eDxAuk+6HCS/njz74bP666DJMk+zaA29 hXFJ/I7p4ZG5fCdeuwZmhj6ktIS2H0qJ79GdLMea//I7b5qvbCdTRqetYxczO40j1uhe gfryHgJXL2WkWP5zJywg+ASoY58gby+n3HG3VtEjAqRYEh6x35pKQnhwzSvSWctKb5fG W6Gg== X-Gm-Message-State: ACgBeo0p9l4hU+lsyDoNneswoyw6422TO9VztR7VufpFuOkNTDh3Q8+Q fqqJtAjj/Y925DvLzacQ3dOZMDzTxus= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AA6agR5LiX7yzIJX+aRmdxMc5aJA0hn24vRQk10vRmIYQS4dYa24k/xJ0tVBOEV8SaOCXGm+2JCT3w== X-Received: by 2002:a17:907:e89:b0:730:af06:6ed1 with SMTP id ho9-20020a1709070e8900b00730af066ed1mr8720033ejc.276.1661029080698; Sat, 20 Aug 2022 13:58:00 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from commodoroII (93-43-147-148.ip92.fastwebnet.it. [93.43.147.148]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id o23-20020a50fd97000000b00445f2dc2901sm5195474edt.21.2022.08.20.13.57.59 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sat, 20 Aug 2022 13:58:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::62b; envelope-from=alessandro.bertulli96@gmail.com; helo=mail-ej1-x62b.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -3 X-Spam_score: -0.4 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB=1.5, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:138945 Archived-At: > Does selecting a region of text and copying that elsewhere work, too? Yes, but not everywhere. Again, thank you very much, I suppose PDF readers cannot do miracles. If the point is the quality of the paper, that's fine, it means I can stop searching for a magical, non-existent PDF software. > If that works (and assuming Evince hasn't acquired OCR powers stelathily), > the pre-scanned text must be somewhere in the document, yes. You're right. Alessandro