Re: ok, let's make a budget
- From: Michael Hart <hart@[redacted]>
- Subject: Re: ok, let's make a budget
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 07:39:58 PDT
On Mon, 22 May 2006, Bill Janssen wrote:
>> You can't just pop scans into favorite
>> word processors or email programs and
>> then search and quote them.
>
> GNU Emacs 21+ supports viewing page scans -- so I *can* pop them into
> my favorite word processor. Searching and quoting is mildly harder; I
> have to put them into UpLib first.
However, Emacs is NOT being a "word" processor when you do this.
This is rather like saying that something works in your browser.
Until you actually do OCR, it's just pictures of pages, not eBooks.
Thanks!!!
Give the world eBooks in 2006!!!
Michael S. Hart
Founder
Project Gutenberg
Blog at http://hart.pglaf.org
PS
As the great Belgian painter Rene Magritte pointed out in his
famouns painting of a pipe:
"Ceci n'est pas une pipe."
or
"Don't confuse the map with the territory."