Question on web spiders
 

Maybe not the right place but seems there are several web experts here.

Can web spiders read and harvest e-mail addresses from a pdf file ?

Many users and folks like QRZ.com are using jpegs not ascii for listing
e-mails -- this seems to work.

So for pdf files without going to a jpeg --- are ascii text addresses
harvestable ?

Thanks

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CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be !

Caveat Lector wrote:
Maybe not the right place but seems there are several web experts
here.

Can web spiders read and harvest e-mail addresses from a pdf file ?

Ask the Adobe people.

Many users and folks like QRZ.com are using jpegs not ascii for
listing
e-mails -- this seems to work.

So for pdf files without going to a jpeg --- are ascii text addresses

harvestable ?

Thanks

Loads fewer spams since switching to this throwaway web name, despite
all of the heartfelt objections of loser K4YZ.

Loads fewer spams since switching to this throwaway web name, despite
all of the heartfelt objections of loser K4YZ.



chuckle, snort, guffaw

Pot, kettle.

I don't think so. Actually, now that I think about it, Google uses
technology to generate hits on pdf's so it must be possible. Used to be it
couldn't be done but OCR programming has come a long way and could be
embedded in search engines. Unless the PDF files that are being found have
a tag for the metasearchers because they want to be found. If I recall,
when I search the net and get a pdf hit, the words in my search are still
highlighted in the document. It probably wouldn't be difficult to do the
same thing with a jpg.

Just my 2 cents.
Greg
ki4bbl


"Caveat Lector" wrote in message
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Maybe not the right place but seems there are several web experts here.

Can web spiders read and harvest e-mail addresses from a pdf file ?

Many users and folks like QRZ.com are using jpegs not ascii for listing
e-mails -- this seems to work.

So for pdf files without going to a jpeg --- are ascii text addresses
harvestable ?

Thanks

--
CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be !