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Is the PDF format appropriate for preserving documents with long perspective?
PDF is almost a de facto standard when it comes to exchanging documents. One of the best things is that always, on each machine, the page numbers stay the same, so it can be easily cited in academic ...
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Software for indexing digital books and documents and make their texts searchable [closed]
I'm looking for preferably free software that will allow one to search a private collection of PDF's and other document and e-book formats for words or sentences in the book.
My purpose is to ...
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Converting invalid PDFs or not for digital preservation?
I have been coming across a number of PDFs that have been created by known PDF programs (including various versions of Adobe Acrobat) that are marked as invalid by JHOVE2. They display fine in every ...
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What preservation risks are associated with the PDF file format?
If the aim is to preserve access to intellectual content encoded in a PDF file, I'm interested in what risks might prevent (or increase the difficulty of) access to that content now or in the future.
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