Converting images with searchable text

[Art Campbell]

I think a better suggestion is to follow what's become more of a best
practice and not include text in graphics. Instead, put in key letters
or numbers and include a table beside the artwork or in the caption
that has the key letter and a definition.

This eliminates having to change copy within the graphic and reimport
if there's an edit and also removes a roadblock if you ever have to
translate. And of course it makes all the text searchable without
having to do any extra steps.

Art Campbell
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Timothy DeWees <tdewees at charter.net> wrote:
> I’m working in a large, complex book (3000+ pages).  One of my co-workers
> was tasked with creating some new images for the book using visio. I
> suggested converting the visio images into pdf “images” and pulling them
> into the book that way thinking that the text within the images would be
> searchable. The text within the original pdf images is searchable. But once
> the entire book is converted to pdf, the text in the images is no longer
> searchable.  I understand that I can run OCR on the new pdf file and the
> text will be made searchable.  I was wondering though if there is something
> I can do in the process of converting the visio figures and pulling them
> into the frame book where the text would still be searchable after the frame
> book is converted to pdf?  I did some research and there seemed to be
> varying opinions on this, with some recommending third-party software.  But
> I was wondering what I could do to improve this process without using
> third-party software?  Thanks in advance for your help.
>
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> Tim
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