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<p class="MsoNormal">I was slowly trawling through a PDF that had OCR’d very badly, planning to email the resulting text to a student when I was done. It was a class handout she needed ASAP.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A typically disorganized professor had just assigned it and asked the students to read it today and discuss it tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I got about halfway through, mindlessly zapping headers and footers until I actually read one and realized it was a web page.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I went to the web page and the entire article was there, in beautifully formatted and structured HTML!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Now why would a prof take a perfectly accessible article, print it scan it in to a PDF and put that up on the class home page – especially at the last minute!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Or maybe a better question to ask is why did stupid me not notice it was taken from a web page until I was halfway through cleaning it up?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">--Debee<o:p></o:p></p>
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