http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/ The Digital Text Community Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:52:01 GMT John Vandenberg http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/507 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/507 ... Leonard, The existence of MILLIONS of documents doesn't _prove_ anything except that millions of documents exist. I'm looking for _one_ document which Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:50:03 GMT Leonard Rosenthol http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/506 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/506 Go for it! There are numerous software packages on the market that can do that and there are MILLIONS of such documents in existence worldwide that Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:08:27 GMT Greg Lindahl http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/505 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/505 ... I'd like PDF to produce files as small as DjVu, for scanned images of books in particular. You guys have had a decade to work on it already. Maybe you Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:50:59 GMT Leonard Rosenthol http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/504 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/504 What software package should you use to do WHAT ACTIONS specifically? There are HUNDREDS of tools available for that platform - both free as well as Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:40:57 GMT Bob Calvert http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/503 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/503 Lars, Most of the books I have looked at on The Internet Archive have a DJVU copy with an annotation layer which allows searching of the text; none that I have Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:40:57 GMT Lars Aronsson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/502 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/502 ... I'm considering Djvu, but I might consider PDF too. Which free software package should I use on a Linux+Perl platform? What amount of metadata should I Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:45:40 GMT Leonard Rosenthol http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/501 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/501 How can PDF be proprietary if it is an ISO standard? Clearly the fact that it is owned, controlled and driven through a process that is open to ANY PERSON in Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:13:04 GMT Philip Baker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/500 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/500 ... PDF is also a proprietary format and a copy of the specs for the ISO version costs just over 200 Swiss francs last time I checked. Philip Baker Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:22:59 GMT Nick Hodson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/499 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/499 I have been interested in using DjVu for presenting scanned books for a number of years. About five years ago I worked with M.A. Hameed, of Lahore, Pakistan, Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:18:51 GMT Mike Cook http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/498 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/498 Hi Lars, Have you considered other formats? For epubBooks.com I use TEI for the master file, but you could also think about using DTBook ? this is a core Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:40:46 GMT Leonard Rosenthol http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/497 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/497 And just to fan the flames, why are you choosing DjVu over PDF? PDF is an open international standard while DjVu is a proprietary (albeit published) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:14:53 GMT Lars Aronsson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/496 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/496 I started Project Runeberg (runeberg.org) in 1992, for digitization of out-of-copyright Scandinavian literature, and designed my own solution based on TIFF and Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:18:25 GMT Philip Baker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/495 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/495 ... Yes, looking again at Calibre's site I see it there. I think before I was looking at something different, possibly a list of well known devices supported Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:08:40 GMT dega_studios http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/494 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/494 Actually, Calibre was one of the first to support ePub and is the tool of choice for iPhone/iPod Touch users and those owning Sony eBook devices (among others) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:13:59 GMT p.baker67@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/493 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital-text/message/493 ... The open source application Calibre has been called the iTunes of ebooks. Not being dedicated to one device or format, it will convert ebooks to the