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I can open the PDF fine, but the text is not so legible. I'm willing to transcribe one or two manually. It would also shrink the download for people with slow links.
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By all means - please do so. I know that a couple of the articles aren't of the greatest quality, as they were poor copies to begin with. I *might* do some of the same things and re-scan the pictures, which would help. For the time being, most people can read them fine, so it's going to be a long-term project. If I were generating a PDF from a MS Word document, it would indeed be a lot smaller. I tried Adobe PageCapture, but that gave crappy results. I have Office XP Pro, and it comes with a OCR program also (and actually does a decent job), but it doesn't retain page layout.
If you have spare time on your hands and want to e-mail me the Word (or whatever) file, I'll scan the disagrams and inset them into the document. I'm sure most people would appreciate the smaller document size over retaining the original page layout.