ESDs are OCR:ed?

[BoGGiT]

Before i order any ESD's, i'd like to ask if anyone here knows if they (in particular the B/X/etc-D&D ESDs) are OCR:ed?

 

[The Sigil]

Yes.

BUT some of the OCRing is better than others.

Some stuff has everything nicely OCR'd. In other products, parts of text pages - or even entire pages - are considered "graphics" and not OCR'd.

It's hit and miss - and as usual with OCR, there's a ton of "crap" that gets through too.

If you're asking, "can I cut and paste with no editing" the answer is no. If you're asking "can I cut and paste and with about two minutes of editing per page get everything nice and neat" the answer is, "for the most part, yes."

--The Sigil

 

[Graf]

OCR?

 

[MerricB]

OCR=Optical Character Recognition.

When done to a scanned document, instead of an image you actually get text you can cut & paste.

Cheers!

 

[jgbrowning]

ocr

optical character recognition.... automatic reading by your scanner/computer of text and turning into a text object as opposed to a graphic object.

at least, thats what i think...

joe b.

 

[Piratecat]

OCR = optical character recognition. It lets you search for actual words, instead of the computer treating the page of text as one big picture.

EDIT - Phfft. I'm slow!

 

[EricNoah]

I'm pretty sure the O stands for "optical".

 

[johnsemlak]

ESD editing

I've downloaded several ESD's from WotC and SVgames.

I havne't tried cutting and pasting much, but from what I see, I agree with everything Sigel said in his post.

I'd add that any complex formatting (tables for example) is almost certainly very difficult.

It would take a lot of work to put an entire module/book onto Microsoft word, if that's what you want to do. You'd have to do it page by page. Unless you've got loads of time on your hands, I wouldn't count on being able to do that.

 

[Zappo]

OCR=Optical Character Recognition.

optical character recognition.... automatic reading by your scanner/computer of text and turning into a text object as opposed to a graphic object.

OCR = optical character recognition. It lets you search for actual words, instead of the computer treating the page of text as one big picture.

I'm pretty sure the O stands for "optical".

OK, OK, I'm sure he understood!

 

[Bendris Noulg]

Re: ESD editing

It would take a lot of work to put an entire module/book onto Microsoft word, if that's what you want to do. You'd have to do it page by page. Unless you've got loads of time on your hands, I wouldn't count on being able to do that.

Save PDF as RTF. Open RTF in Word, save as DOC.

Do it all the time.