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I have made some improvements to the PR BF2 1.3 manual. It is an excellent work but a bit difficult to search -- there is no interactive Table of Contents, it cannot be searched for individual or multiple occurences of words or phrases, etc.

I have run the manual through an Optical Character Recognition app, and also created an interactive Table of Contents which should appear in any PDF reading software. With this you can more speedily jump to desired sections, and you can also Find and Search for single or all occurrences of words or phrases: For example, suppose you want to quickly see all the pages dealing with mortars -- you do a Find or Search (or both) for "mortar" in your PDF reader app and immediately get to the mortar info.

Now you can also copy and paste words, paragraphs, etc from the manual.

As far as I know, the OCR process went very well and was very accurate.

Of course, I have not changed so much as a single letter in the manual. In fact it is nothing more than an identical copy of the official manual with an invisible OCR "layer" added.

Here is a link to download -- it's 2shared, which is a bit dodgy, but it should do the trick:

pr_1.3_OCR.pdf download - 2shared

Please bring this to the attention of the PR manual writers, and any feedback/constructive criticism is welcome.
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Not sure what PDF reader you use but the original manual does have an interactable TOC and can be searched for words and phrases just like any other pdfs.

The only thing your tool did do was make the titles into text, and added a Adobe TOC. Don't see the benifit of that at all really and it also made a lot of the pictures broken. Also shows in the shrunken file size.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestion but not going to implement it I'm afraid.

Funny, I was unable to search and find words in the manual using Foxit PDF, perhaps I cocked it up somehow. Anyway I myself find the Adobe-style TOC extremely handy, because it does obviate the need to keep jumping back to the original TOC page.

But the broken pictures in my version are obviously a serious problem -- please feel free to delete this entire thread, I'll not post on this topic again unless I'm sure I've produced something worthwhile, which as you say, may not even be necessary.

Thanks for your attention
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[R-DEV]Mineral wrote:Not sure what PDF reader you use but the original manual does have an interactable TOC and can be searched for words and phrases just like any other pdfs.

The only thing your tool did do was make the titles into text, and added a Adobe TOC. Don't see the benifit of that at all really and it also made a lot of the pictures broken. Also shows in the shrunken file size.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestion but not going to implement it I'm afraid.