Re: scientific publishing process (was Re: Cost and access)

Hi Adobe lurkers,

Kingsley has just handed you a valuable means to keep users tied to your 
technologies:

On 10/6/2014 8:18 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> On 10/6/14 2:49 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 10/06/2014 11:03 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>>> On 10/6/14 12:48 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:

>> I'm not saying that it is so simple.  You do have to find the metadata
>> block in the PDF and then look for the /Title, /Author, ... stuff.
>
> But it could be simple if PDF didn't have the issues I outlined in
> regards to extraction technology. Funnily enough, there's a massive
> opportunity for Adobe to solve this problem, especially as they've now
> ventured heavily into cloud enabling their technologies, If they provide
> APIs from the cloud, this problem could become much simpler to address
> in regards to productive solutions where PDFs become less of the data
> silos that they are today.
>>

Of course, it probably makes sense for Adobe to do the work, but there 
is also enough known in open source about PDFs for a third party to do 
this as well.

Good idea, K!

Mike

Received on Tuesday, 7 October 2014 01:40:07 UTC