[X4U] Mac OCR

[Samantha Packingham]

On Wednesday, July 28, 2004, at 09:22  PM, Craig wrote:

>
> On Jul 28, 2004, at 5:10 PM, Randy B. Singer wrote:
>
>> As far as I know, OS X by itself can't create protected PDF's.  In 
>> fact,
>> it is a poorly kept secret that if you view a protected PDF in Viewer,
>
> What's Viewer?

Preview


>
>> and then print to PDF, that the resulting PDF often is unprotected.  
>> (A
>> huge security violation.)
>>
>
> When I print to PDF the resulting file has no selectable text 
> portions; no longer editable unless you feed it back to an OCR.
>
> -Craig
>
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